[Pkg-gnupg-commit] r131 - in /gnupg/trunk/debian: BUGS.Debian changelog

Thu Sep 3 00:09:25 UTC 2009

Author: dleidert-guest
Date: Thu Sep  3 00:09:21 2009
New Revision: 131

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-gnupg/?sc=1&rev=131
Log:
* debian/BUGS.Debian: Added. Collect information about limitations, which
  have been reported to the BTS and might be in the future too. This will
  replace the open bug reports, so the bug count decreases and readability
  increases (closes: #44910, #89094, #282061, #359758, #427857, #472642,
  #485458).

Added:
    gnupg/trunk/debian/BUGS.Debian
Modified:
    gnupg/trunk/debian/changelog

Added: gnupg/trunk/debian/BUGS.Debian
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-gnupg/gnupg/trunk/debian/BUGS.Debian?rev=131&op=file
==============================================================================

--- gnupg/trunk/debian/BUGS.Debian (added)
+++ gnupg/trunk/debian/BUGS.Debian Thu Sep  3 00:09:21 2009
@@ -1,0 +1,112 @@
+Frequently Reported Issues for gnupg in Debian
+----------------------------------------------
+
+This file is intended to collect information about issues and limitations in
+gnupg, which have been reported to the Debian bug-tracking system (BTS) for
+gnupg.
+
+    <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/src:gnupg>
+
+Make sure you checked the information here before reporting an issue to the
+Debian BTS. Please note, that most of the reports have been forwarded
+upstream, and that this file just expresses, what upstream told us. For many
+of these reports, items in the upstream bug tracker have been opened. So in
+rare cases, a limitation might get fixed in future releases of GnuPG.
+
+
+gnupg: When creating a signature, it does not necessarily preserve the
+       permissions of the signed file.  
+
+    [..] I don't see the problem with this. In same cases we could create a
+         file with the same permissions as the source file but not in all.
+         Often gpg does not work on the file but just reads the content. This
+         common Unix behaviour (cf. cat(1)).  If there are concerns, make sure
+         the umask has ben set properly. 
+         .
+         Sor signing confidential files, a detached signature is anyway a
+         better choice.
+         .
+         Another reason not to change it is that it changes the interface and
+         thus would break myriads of scripts. [..] (Werner Koch)
+
+    Debian #44910 <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/44910>
+
+
+gnupg: I wish I could sign multiple files in one pass.
+
+    [..] IIRC, the sematics of sign are too complicated for --multifile. If
+         the problem is just to avoid entering a passphrase several times,
+         gpg-agent is very helpful and solves the problem nicely. [..]
+         (Werner Koch)
+
+    Debian #89094 <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/89094>
+    GnuPG  #1041  <URL:https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue1041>
+
+
+gnupg: I want to extract a signature from a signed and encrypted file.
+
+    [..] This is the occasionally-requested "--unwrap" command which would
+         stop processing after a single layer of the file.  I.e. convert
+         Enc(Sign(data)) to Sign(data). [..] (David Shaw)
+
+    Debian #282061 <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/282061>
+    GnuPG  #1060   <URL:https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue1060>
+    <URL:http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2001-August/009588.html
+    <URL:http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2004-April/022352.html
+
+
+gnupg: Piping content to gpg: echo foo | gpg --use-agent ... errors out with
+       `gpg: cancelled by user'
+
+    This might happen, when gpg is unable to determine the correct name of the
+    terminal. You can check the terminal given to the agent by running
+    gpg-agent with the --debug-level advanced switch. The output might contain:
+
+        gpg-agent[XXX] DBG: <- OPTION ttyname=/dev/tty
+
+    whereas the output of tty says
+
+        /dev/pts/X
+
+    You'll have to set GPG_TTY to point to the correct terminal (see also
+    gpg-agent(1)).
+
+    Debian #359758 <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/359758>
+    GnuPG  #1047   <URL:https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue1047>
+
+
+gnupg: I get a passphrase entry window (from pinentry*) although I used
+       the --passphrase switch.
+
+    [..] That is as it should be. [..] (Werner Koch)
+
+    gpg won't send the value of --passphrase given on the command line to the
+    configured agent.
+
+    Debian #427857 <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/427857>
+
+
+gnupg: Sets key expiry date in the past.
+
+    When setting the expiry time to values bigger than 97 years (years
+    >2106), gpg creates a key with expiry date set in the past. This is
+    due to using a 32 bit integer to represent the date. It's currently
+    and unfixable limitation.
+
+    Debian #472642 <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/472642>
+    <URL:http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2008-June/024388.html>
+
+
+gnupg: Dies with "Ohhhh jeeeee: ... this is a bug".
+
+    Since gnupg 1.4.6-2.2 we don't install the gpg(1) binary setuid root
+    anymore. If you observe the error message because of this change, then
+    you can use dpkg-statoverride(1) to change the permissions of the binary
+    permanently (for example to set them setuid root):
+
+        dpkg-statoverride --update --add root root 4755 /usr/bin/gpg
+
+    Debian #485458 <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/485458>
+
+
+ -- Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert at wgdd.de>, 2009

Modified: gnupg/trunk/debian/changelog
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-gnupg/gnupg/trunk/debian/changelog?rev=131&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- gnupg/trunk/debian/changelog (original)
+++ gnupg/trunk/debian/changelog Thu Sep  3 00:09:21 2009
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@
   * debian/gnupg.udev: Added udev rules to support several SCM smartcard
     readers. Thanks to Michael Bienia (closes: #543216).
   * debian/rules (binary-arch): Install udev rules.
+  * debian/BUGS.Debian: Added. Collect information about limitations, which
+    have been reported to the BTS and might be in the future too. This will
+    replace the open bug reports, so the bug count decreases and readability
+    increases (closes: #44910, #89094, #282061, #359758, #427857, #472642,
+    #485458).
   * debian/patches/24_gpgv_manpage_cleanup.dpatch: Dropped (applied upstream).
   * debian/patches/25_fr.po_fixes.dpatch: Ditto.
   * debian/patches/25_it.po_fixes.dpatch: Ditto.


