Alright, we can keep just the colon delimited format for --ldapservers et al. Because we support ldap URLs in CrlDistributionPoints in X.509 certificates we need to handle them internally. But there is indeed no need to support them in the config files.

gniibe: Can you explain why an import shall modify the secret key? Form my understanding it is an invalid secret key and thus it can't be used. An import operation is different than the key generation.

Please read T5454 again. To get the listing I showed you need to use the latest gpgme from Git master.

It is a different trust model. The man page has some information but we meanwhile doubt that it will ever be of great use. It is over designed to be actually useful. Just don't care. For further questions, please use the mailing lists.

TOFU is not used by default and thus the tofu.db does only matter if you have enabled TOFU. Its purpose is to track the use of keys and it also stored information which you explictly gave in response to TOFU related questions.

Right. However, the SOS thing should then also be used for secret keys. (FWIW, I wrote my last comment while you were writing yours).

We invented the 0x40 compression flag to declare that as native curve point format. With the introduction of 448 things got more complicated due to the new IETF statdards for this curev. This is the reason for @gniibe's proposal for a Simple Octet String (SOS) as a new data type in OpenPGP.

There is also the issue that options flagged as ignore or forced in the global config file won't have an effect either. But indeed we could mark them as non-change.

Well, we have always expanded envvars in registry values. You need to create the value as an REG_EXPAND_SZ type, though.

Fixed for 1.8.8

Because an existing setting in gpg.conf overrides the keyserver set in dirmngr.conf