Control: tags -1 wontfix Control: found -1 2.4.7-1 On 2011-10-15 Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > Package: gnupg > Version: 1.4.11-3 > Severity: normal
> For a quick test, I needed to generate a temporary GPG key. I started > with "gpg --homedir /tmp/gpg-temp --gen-key". This walked me all the > way through the key generation process, including lengthy entropy > collection, before erroring out because the directory didn't exist (I'd > expected gpg to create it): [...] This was marked wontfix and closed upstream: | Werner said: | > GnuPG tries to create its _default_ home directory because this is the | > common case. Creating a home directory in every case would clutter the | > disk with gnupg related data which may even be sensitive. | | Closing as wontfix.
