duplicity cannot be expected to parse gpg.conf, no, nor to control gnupg to such an extent. but if duplicity is to call out to gnupg for encryption services, then duplicity can IMO be expected to recover gracefully from catastrophic failures on gnupg's behalf to perform, even when it arguably should not fail.
that gnupg chokes on its own configuration file and dies is gnupg's fault; but that this abnormal termination of gnupg sends duplicity into an endless loop that produces no backup yet never terminates, THAT is duplicity's fault. it would be better for duplicity to detect the fact that gnupg has failed unexpectedly and treat this as an unrecoverable error, passing a failure message on to the user and terminating gracefully. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to duplicity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1710309 Title: Backup does not recognize gpg 2 option and fails Status in Duplicity: Invalid Status in duplicity package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Attempting to create a full backup to a SMB NAS, succeeds if backup is set to unencrypted. Fails if password is specified. Symptom: deja-dup loops endlessly through "scanning" -> "encryption password needed" -> "require password?" and round and round. Possibly related to recent gnupg options changes? Creating a GPG key pair for enigmail to use was the last major change i made to my set-up since the last time these back-ups succeeded. If that's the cause, i'll be darned if i can work out what to revert where. Release: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS deja-dup 34.2-0ubuntu1.1 duplicity 0.7.06-2ubuntu2 Reproduction Steps: * Add the line "trust-model tofu+pgp" to the end of your gpg.conf (probably ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf) * Try an encrypted backup of any data to any destination. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1710309/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
