Re: PGG broken?

[Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@despammed.com>]

* Andreas Seltenreich <andreas+ding@gate450.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Marcus Frings schrob:

>> * Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@despammed.com> wrote:

>>> 1) When I use the set-policy-url option in my gpg.conf I can't sign
>>>    mails anymore ("sign error"). After removing this option I can sign
>>>    mails again.

> Hmm, did you really get a "sign error" signalled?[1] When I tried to
> reproduce it, I got a 'search-failed one from pgg-parse-armor, because
> pgg-gpg-sign-region returned successful signing status and an empty
> output buffer at the same time.

Yes, see
<vita-brevis-breviter-in-brevi-finietur-mors-venit-velociter-quae-neminem-veretur-86mze537am.fsf@shodan.gothgoose.net>.

> In my case, GnuPG[2] returned a non-zero exit-status because it couldn't
> generate a signature with a policy URL while maintaining PGP
> compatibility. Nevertheless, it did the signing without a policy URL
> and reported SIG_CREATED.

Yes, this is reported in the debugging buffer. See my thread mentioned
above.

> Switching PGP-compatibility off via "openpgp" in gpg.conf made the
> signing succeed with a policy URL set.

Yes, this should be a work-around. However, I'm just using a rather
simple and standard gpg.conf.

> Of course, the underdone error handling is still there, and I wonder
> if one should fix it by making the sentinel not discard the output on
> non-zero exit status, or forcing pgg-gpg to return failure even if
> there might be useful output. Anyone?

I think it's something in pgg.el because when I exchange my pgg.el from
CVS with the one from the stable release of Gnus everything works fine
again.

Regards,
Marcus
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