Package: gpg Version: 2.2.12-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream I got a number of "invalid signatures" recently, and when I investigated, I found that the "--textmode" option apparently has no effect during verify operations, unlike what I expected, so I had to manually convert the input to CR/LF to get successful verification.
Ideally, of course, I'd like "--textmode" to work in verify. If that's not feasible, it should at least be made clear that it doesn't in the documentation, including the man page. Currently it just says: -t, --textmode Treat input files as text and store them in the OpenPGP canonical text form with standard "CRLF" line endings. [...] One might argue that "input files" implies that it's only for signing, but the text is an input, too, during verify, and nothing else states that it doesn't apply to verify. Making that clear would at least have saved me some searching and experimenting. Of course, it would have been better if the signatures were created in text mode, but that's on the sender's side which I probably can't influence easily. (It's probably an upstream problem, but reporting a bug upstream requires a login, and I don't feel like creating an account there just for that. So please don't ask me to forward it upstream, but do it yourself when necessary.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gpg depends on: ii gpgconf 2.2.12-1 ii libassuan0 2.5.2-1 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-9.2~deb10u1 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libgcrypt20 1.8.4-5 ii libgpg-error0 1.35-1 ii libreadline7 7.0-5 ii libsqlite3-0 3.27.2-3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1 Versions of packages gpg recommends: ii gnupg 2.2.12-1 gpg suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed
