On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 06:41:34PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > 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.
Clarifying something here: while I would love to have seen gpg *create* the directory, the most important part of the bug here is "detect early that it doesn't exist, and error out before going through the whole interactive process".
