[Bug 1257706] [NEW] gpg-agent environment variables not correctly exported

[Guillaume Martres]

Public bug reported:

Since Ubuntu 13.10, there is an Upstart script /usr/share/upstart/sessions/gpg-agent.conf which launches the gpg-agent daemon and then export the GPG_AGENT_INFO environment variable:
   initctl set-env --global GPG_AGENT_INFO=$GPG_AGENT_INFO
This is enough to prevent the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent script from launching gpg-agent itself, but it's not enough to actually use gpg-agent, you also need to export SSH_AUTH_SOCK and SSH_AGENT_PID.

** Affects: gnupg2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  gpg-agent environment variables not correctly exported

Status in “gnupg2” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Since Ubuntu 13.10, there is an Upstart script /usr/share/upstart/sessions/gpg-agent.conf which launches the gpg-agent daemon and then export the GPG_AGENT_INFO environment variable:
     initctl set-env --global GPG_AGENT_INFO=$GPG_AGENT_INFO
  This is enough to prevent the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent script from launching gpg-agent itself, but it's not enough to actually use gpg-agent, you also need to export SSH_AUTH_SOCK and SSH_AGENT_PID.

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