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Using --send-keys without key should exit with an error or print warning
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In Ubuntu bug #389694 a user reported, that using --send-keys without any key-ID
results in neither a success nor a warning/error message. The user requests,
that gpg should print a warning. In my opinion, a simple information in the
manual (page) informing, that nothing will happen if the key-ID is not
specified, might also be a solution.

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External Link
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389694
Version
1.4.9

Event Timeline

• dleidert set Version to 1.4.9.Jul 17 2009, 11:12 AM
• dleidert added projects: Feature Request, gnupg, Ubuntu.
• dleidert set External Link to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389694.
• dleidert added a subscriber: • dleidert.
• werner added a subscriber: • werner.Jul 20 2009, 11:31 AM

We can't print an error message because that would let gpg treturn with an error
code and lead to problesm with scripts which assume the current way of doing
things. A warning is possible but Unix tools generally don't do that.

As suggested, I'll add a note to the man page.

• werner added a project: In Progress.Jul 20 2009, 11:31 AM
• werner closed this task as Resolved.Jul 20 2009, 11:35 AM
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• werner removed a project: In Progress.

Done for 2.0 in svn r5082; will also be packaged with gnupg 1.4.10.