Teemu writes:

> I think that more or less everyone should have "use-agent" line in their
> ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf file because then gpg-agent daemon is started
> automatically by /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent script, at least in
> Debian GNU/Linux systems.

I will give that a whirl, thanks!

> GnuPG 2 (gpg2) always uses the agent for key management but if gpg-agent
> daemon is not running it is launched temporarily.

Maybe that was the cause of the "Oh, it works. Oh, now it doesn't."
moments I had some of...

>> building .deb packages with debuild doesn't work, it gives up on
>> signing the packages right away, instead of trying to sign them. I'll
>> have to do some searching to find out how to fix that...

> I'd guess that that this is a gpg-agent issue too.

I will put use-agent in there, and see if it helps.


  Thanks again!

    Adam

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 "If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being          Adam Sjøgren
  gruntled."                                             asjo@koldfront.dk