Adam Sjøgren [2015-11-28 11:11:17+01] wrote:

> Teemu writes:
>> Could this be GnuPG agent issue? GnuPG 2 uses agent automatically,
>> even depens on it, whereas GnuPG 1 needs "--use-agent" option or
>> "use-agent" line in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf file.
>
> It might be, but I have never (consciously) used gpg-agent with GnuPG
> 1. (Maybe Gnome started it behind my back, before I dropped Gnome,
> though.)

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.

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

> I think I will use the opportunity to migrate to GnuPG 2 - the only
> think I am missing is that 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.