[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#860156: Bug#860156: gnupg: gpg stays inactive, program not terminating

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Control: tags 860156 + moreinfo unreproducible

On Wed 2017-04-12 11:29:50 +0200, Gabriel Hondet wrote:
> When gpg is called, nothing happens and program seems to be waiting for
> something (i.e. program is not terminating and no errors are shown). The
> same happens for gpg-agent.

how are you invoking gpg?

if you invoke it with no arguments, it expects to be in a pipeline with
some sort of guess at what it is supposed to do.  this is not an
advisable mode to operate any tool, especially a security-sensitive
one.  give it an explicit command instead!

If i launch gpg 2.1.20 with no arguments, i get:

0 dkg at alice:~$ gpg
gpg: WARNING: no command supplied.  Trying to guess what you mean ...
gpg: Go ahead and type your message ...


so i'm unable to reproduce the problem you describe.

> I assume it does not depend on my configuration as gpg version of stable
> release (1.4.18) works fine.

gpg1 1.4.21 shows me this when invoked with no arguments:

0 dkg at alice:~$ gpg1
gpg: Go ahead and type your message ...


Can you provide more details please?

    --dkg
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