gpg use in Debian popcon

[Bill Allombert]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 04:46:34PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> hi Bill--
> 
> On 07/31/2013 07:51 AM, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 
> > I am the maintainer of Debian popularity-contest
> > <http://popcon.debian.org>
> 
> thank you!
> 
> > 1) This creates spurious empty files in /root/.gnupg
> 
> Maybe you want the --no-options flag?
> 
>  --no-options
>     Shortcut for --options /dev/null. This option is detected before
>     an attempt to open an option file.  Using this option will  also
>     prevent the creation of a ‘~/.gnupg’ homedir.

According to the submitter of
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=714917>
this is not sufficient. Maybe I am doing it wrong, though.

> > 2) I was told --keyring will be removed in gpg2, and obviously I cannot
> > use gpgv.
> 
> I don't know about this. --keyring is still present in gpg 2.0.20, and i
> don't see it going away in the master branch (which will become 2.1)
> unless i'm missing something.   Hopefully Werner can speak to these plans.

Yes that would be nice.

Cheers
Bill