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Registered: 2016-07-18

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gpg after gnupg-2.1.12-1 breaks PGP in both Gajim and GPA

Hello,

I'm curious if I'm the only one seeing this issue, since I can't find any current topic or a bug report dealing with it (which is strange as something like this should be pretty high profile and is usually covered by people on day one, long before I happen to get to it... which to me suggests that this may possibly be just a local problem.)

Now, ever since the upgrade from gnupg-2.1.12-1 (to 2.1.13 and 2.1.14) about a month ago, PGP encryption in Gajim completely stops working for me (Gajim claims to be unable to find a running GPG agent despite the agent working 'fine' with stock gnupg-shipped utilities). Testing other PGP software that I use (gpa 0.9.9-2), I can see that GPA suddenly can't change passphrases on my keys, claiming to be failing on the gpgme library (which hasn't been updated in over half a year so that again boils down to the gnupg update).

Reverting back to gnupg-2.1.12-1 makes both PGP encryption in Gajim and GPA work fine.

Is someone else seeing PGP software suddenly failing after the mentioned update or is it just me?

Scimmia

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Re: gpg after gnupg-2.1.12-1 breaks PGP in both Gajim and GPA

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/49930

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Registered: 2016-07-18

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Re: gpg after gnupg-2.1.12-1 breaks PGP in both Gajim and GPA

Looks like Gajim was also patched upstream few days ago to work with the new gnupg:
https://trac.gajim.org/ticket/8355

Will try the fix later today, but looking at the patches, both are related to the same issue. Thanks for the pointer Scimmia.