On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 07:33:59AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > 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.
Thank you!
