Signing commits with Breezy

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hi Jelmer.

Thank you for your quick reply. I am subscribed to the list, so no need 
to Cc me.

Jelmer Vernooij - 29.10.18, 18:52:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 12:26:33PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > I switched from Bazaar to Breezy some time ago.
> > 
> > And after making sure that the signing plugin is in the right
> > directory, Breezy still used it, although "brz plugins" shows:
> > 
> > signing (failed to load)
> > 
> >   ** Unable to load plugin 'signing' from
> >   '/home/martin/.config/breezy/
> > 
> > plugins/signing': Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you
> > mean print(rev_id)? (__init__.py, line 71)
> 
> This appears to be because the plugin is not compatible with Python 3.

Well I removed it after having seen this error message.

> > Anyway, on another user account, I did not have this plugin in
> > configuration directory and it still worked. Upto recently.
> > 
> > Configuration is as follows:
> > 
> > % cat ~/config/breezy/breezy.conf
> > [DEFAULT]
> > email = somemail
> > create_signatures = always
> > gpg_signing_key = SOMEKEYID
> 
> Breezy supports commit signing out of the box - you shouldn't need a
> plugin for it.

Then why doesn't it ask me for entering the passphrase anymore and 
commits unsigned? Does native support need different options? I searched 
for a howto or documentation on how to configure signing commits but did 
not find anything.

> I've never actually heard of a bzr plugin for signing either. What is
> its origin?

I have no idea anymore. I could dig it out from a backup in case it is 
important for you to know.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin