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Package: libcrypt-gpg-perl
Version: 1.42-2
Severity: wishlist
With the Debian version of Crypt::GPG being significantly different than
what is at CPAN, I think this is the best place to bring this up.
In debugging this application, I've been listing, retrieving and saving
keys into the keyrings without problem. Today I tried generating a key
pair and gpg hung. I was running the program inside emacs using perldb.
I had not specified a default secret key or passphrase. I was
attempting to make 2048 bit keys, and arranged for quite a few processes
to generate entropy. I also let the thing run for 5 hours. So, it
isn't the fault of /dev/random running out of entropy which hung it.
I tried to set gpgbin to "/usr/bin/strace -ogpg.strace /usr/bin/gpg"
since the man page suggests gpgbin is looking for a string. Looking in
backtick(), Crypt::GPG is running things by exec'ing a list, which I
expect is the safer way to run the binary. So, I also tried giving
gpgbin a list of '/usr/bin/strace', '-o', 'gpg.strace', '/usr/bin/gpg'
(or combining -o and gpg.strace). It doesn't like that either.
I guess I'll try a few other things. But, having some way to spawn
gpg using strace would be nice to try and find out what is hanging
gpg. Hence why I call it wishlist.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages libcrypt-gpg-perl depends on:
ii gnupg 1.4.5-1 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii libexpect-perl 1.15-5 Expect.pm - Perl Expect interface
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-5 Time and date functions for Perl
ii perl [libtime-hires-perl] 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
libcrypt-gpg-perl recommends no packages.
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Could you add a test case and reopen?
Most probably the new IPC interface of the new 1.52-1 release fixes this issue.
Prueba el correo Terra ( http://www.terra.es/correo ); Seguro, r�pido, fiable.
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