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gpg --edit-key silently does nothing
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Good day,

I'm helping a litle with the gnupg package on Debian. We think, we found a bug
in gnupg, a normal bug.

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Package: gnupg
Version: 1.4.12
Severity: normal

If you try to edit a key with an unrecognized id, GPG doesn't print
anything other than its usual copyright banner, and exits zero. With
`--no-greeting', it prints nothing at all.

[ponder ~]gpg --no-greeting --edit-key notexist
[ponder ~]echo $?
0

This isn't a helpful indication that one has typed a keyid wrongly. By
contrast, `--list-keys notexist' reports

gpg: error reading key: public key not found

and exits with status 2.

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Hope this could be solved soon.

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Version
1.4.12

Event Timeline

gatuno set Version to 1.4.12.Jul 16 2012, 10:47 PM
gatuno added projects: gnupg, Bug Report.
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• werner added a subscriber: • werner.Jul 18 2012, 12:23 PM

For backward compatibility I don't think it is a good idea to change the exit
code. However, printing a diagnostic is a good idea.

gatuno added a comment.Jul 19 2012, 11:46 PM

Well, then gpg will print a diagnostic message?

Sounds ok.

• werner added a comment.Aug 1 2012, 7:27 AM

Yes, we can do this for 2.1. In case there is an already translated string
available we can backport this also to 1.4 and 2.0.

• werner added a comment.Oct 4 2013, 9:27 PM

Done for 1.4.15 and 2.0.22 to be released today.

• werner closed this task as Resolved.Oct 4 2013, 9:27 PM
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