Re: [Evolution] Misleading GPG error message from Evolution

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 15:35 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 12:23 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > You're using an unreleased version of Fedora, presumably to keep up
> > with Gnome development. Otherwise I agree they should be very
> > similar.
>       Hi,
> that's true. The Fedora is unreleased, the GNOME version packaged
> there
> is at its final stable release. I won't recommend to update till the
> final release of it, of course. :)

Naturally.

> > I can file a bug if it would help.
> Sure, feel free to file it, if not filled already (I didn't search
> for
> it). It'll be good to not be forgotten. An investigation for
> possibilities would be made later.

Before filing the bug I attempted to reproduce the problem using gpg
from the command line, and the error message is similar to the one you
got.

Then I tried doing it with Evo to a non-existent address, and again I
got the correct error message. Same with a real address without a
public key in the keyring.

This is absurd. In my previous testing I had logged out and in again
several times so it doesn't look like anything to do with my desktop
session.

Now I'm starting to wonder if I've strayed into a parallel universe ...

In any case I filed an RFE against Evo for the --status-fd idea:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766811

poc