Re: [Evolution] Misleading GPG error message from Evolution

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 12:17 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 10:57 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > In the case when I got the error message, Evolution never asked for
> > my passphrase. It only did so when I removed the offending
> > destination. That reinforced the idea that there was a problem with
> > my secret key.
>       Hi,
> I do not know why that your version of gpg/gpg2 gives different error
> message and behaves differently from that mine. The version as such
> is
> not that different, as far as I can tell, except of the distribution
> version, where I use a newer (by one).

You're using an unreleased version of Fedora, presumably to keep up
with Gnome development. Otherwise I agree they should be very similar.

> > I note from the gpg manpage that the option --status-fd can be used
> > to get encoded status information, including whether signatures are
> > good and encryption has been successful. This might be a better way
> > to generate more user-friendly error messages.
> Right, and it is used by the camel-gpg-context.c. Use:
>    $ CAMEL_DEBUG=gpg evolution
> to see what information is exchanged between the evolution and the
> gpg
> binary, including the status notices.
>
> I agree that a more user-friendly error message would be useful.

I can file a bug if it would help.

poc