[PATCH] emacs: Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Sat Feb 9 13:12:52 PST 2019


Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> writes:

> When invoking gpg as a backgrounded tool, it's important to let gpg
> know that it is backgrounded, to avoid spurious prompts or other
> breakage.
>
> In particular, https://bugs.debian.org/913614 was a regression in
> GnuPG which causes problems when importing keys without a terminal,
> but gpg expects one.
>
> Ensuring that notmuch-emacs always invokes gpg as a background process
> should avoid some of these unnecessary failure.
>

1) I only skimmed the debian bug, but I hard the impression Werner said
that --batch implied --no-tty?

2) How urgent is this? It will probably be at more than month before the
next notmuch release, due to some sphinx issues that need some
attention. Should we do a 0.28.2 point release ? I'd say basically if
you think it's worth patching for debian we should do the point release
for everyone.

d


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