On 2025-04-18 Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 06:41:34PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> 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: [...] > 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". Yes, that is how I read your report, it really is not nice. I have added a comment on the upstream bts to emphasize this, perhaps it helps. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
