[pass] Two Bugs Affecting passwordstore.org with GnuPG 2.1.1

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com> wrote:
> == Bug 2: gpg-agent/pinentry called when it shouldn't be ==
>
> The keys in the attached GnuPG home folder do not have passphrases
> (they're used in a test harness). On GnuPG 2.0, the following
> succeeds. On GnuPG 2.1, the following fails.
>
> $ unset DISPLAY
> $ echo hello > signme
> $ gpg -s signme </dev/null
> gpg: signing failed: Operation cancelled
> gpg: signing failed: Operation cancelled
>
> GnuPG should *not* prompt for a passphrase when keys are not protected
> with passphrases.

A follow-up on this report. It seems the real problem is that when
GnuPG 2.1 imports keys from 2.0, it marks them as protected, even if
they have no passphrase.