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gpg outputs info to the tty despite that it used the Pinentry
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Description

For historic reasons gpg seems to output strings like
“You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for...” to the tty and not to the log stream/stderr.

It should do this only in passphrase-loopback mode.

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https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-July/060788.html

Event Timeline

• werner created this task.Jul 25 2018, 10:15 AM
• werner moved this task from Backlog to For next release on the gnupg (gpg22) board.Aug 28 2018, 4:19 PM
• werner closed this task as Wontfix.Aug 28 2018, 5:09 PM
• werner claimed this task.
• werner edited projects, added gnupg (gpg20); removed gnupg (gpg22).

This was actually reported against 2.0.31 which reached EOL 8 months ago.