Public bug reported:
I have a Xenial system; gnupg-agent 2.1.11-6ubuntu2 is part of the
install.
In /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent , gpg-agent is started if either
~/.gnupg/gpg.conf or ~/.gnupg/options contains a "use-agent" directive.
This part is working fine, as far as I'm aware.
Now, the /usr/share/upstart/sessions/gpg-agent.conf file contains this
comment:
# /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent starts the agent without DBUS,
# thus can't use pinentry-gnome3
# but we know we have dbus now, restart gpg-agent
Okay, so when gpg-agent was started by Xsession, it had been started
without DBUS, so then this re-starts it with DBUS awareness. I can
understand that.
The problem is that this Upstart config starts gpg-agent regardless of
whether it was previously running or not. So the Xsession script's
careful logic to check for "use-agent" in the GnuPG user config files is
for naught.
I don't use gpg-agent, and don't want it running in my X session. (I
want ssh-agent, and nothing else.) The "use-agent" directive is exactly
the kind of mechanism I'd want for controlling whether or not this
daemon is started. The Upstart config file should not run roughshod over
that.
** Affects: gnupg2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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upstart/sessions/gpg-agent.conf starts gpg-agent unconditionally
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