I don't think anyone is suggesting the use of gpg without a command. However, use WITH the --with-fingerprint command seems to be broken. Thank you for providing a correct way of doing what we want, but please either explain why the use of the --with-fingerprint command isn't working, or put this back as a bug.

Yes, please please raise the priority on this. I just spent 15-30 minutes looking through tons of emails on lists saying to use --with-fingerprints and wondering what the heck was wrong with the people posting that until I saw this bug. Please raise priority, please fix.