This is a rather elegant trick from upstream to deal with the differences
between bytesarrays, strings, and unicode literals between Python2.x and
Py3k. However, it doesn't actually make a difference if we're running Py3k or
not to use the trick, since it dynamically calls the builtin type for the
native string in any Python version. It works like so:
>>> import sys
>>> data = '{}\n2 + 2 ≠ 5'.format(sys.version[:5])
>>> print(data)
3.3.2
2 + 2 ≠ 5
>>> type(data)
<class 'str'>
>>> type(data)()
''
>>> unicodedata = u'Mon corps et moi étions un, á cause de cette corde maudite.'
>>> type(unicodedata)
<class 'str'>
Also, in Python2.x:
>>> import sys
>>> data = '{}\n2 + 2 ≠ 5'.format(sys.version[:5])
>>> print data
2.7.5
2 + 2 ≠ 5
>>> type(data)
<type 'str'>
>>> type(data)()
''
>>> unicodedata = u'Mon corps et moi étions un, á cause de cette corde maudite.'
>>> type(unicodedata)
<type 'unicode'>
>>> type(unicodedata)()
u''
For some reason, in GnuPG>=2.x, a missing/corrupted trustdb is a fatal
error. This means that if the homedir was just changed, and any command which
utilizes keys is called (e.g. sign, encrypt, decrypt, etc.) GnuPG dies without
executing the command because we can't find a valid trustdb.
What's even more is that there is a new command in GnuPG>=2.x:
'--fix-trustdb'. You'd think it would, you know, *fix the trustdb*. Hah! Think
again! It prints out a series of shell commands (incorrect ones, at that, as
they don't respect the relevant env variables such as $GNUPGHOME) in a format
which is *not* exec'able (i.e. you can't do something similar to how
$ exec `ssh-agent`
is used). Software engineering, motherfuckers. #FML.
* ADD function _util._deprefix() for stripping a given prefix from the
beginning of another string.
* ADD function _util._separate_keywork() for extracting the keyword from the
beginning of status-fd output.
* REMOVE excess EOL whitespace.
* CLEANUP method gnupg.GPGBase._read_response().
This patch sets the environment variable LANGUGE to 'en', meaning English translation is used for outputs. The string comparisons in test_gpg_binary_version_str failed otherwise when using a non-English locale. Another choice may be to set LANG=C to avoid locales all-in-all.
* ADD docs/change-license-emails.txt, which includes email exchanges between
myself and intrigeri, including links to Debian and LEAP mailing lists with
arguments for and against using AGPL for a library.
* CHANGE license header for all files.
* CHANGE LICENSE file and gnupg/copyright.py to use GPLv3+ text.
* Add GPG._generated_keys as an _utils.InheritableProperty class for storing
a configurable (even by subclasses of GPGBase, without property overrides)
subdirectory of whichever directory gnupg.GPG.homedir is set to. This
subdirectory can be used via the 'separate_keyring=True' option to
gnupg.GPG.gen_key_input(), which will switch temporarily to new pubring.gpg
and secring.gpg keyrings during key creation, and upon finishing creation
of the new key, will ask for the new key's fingerprint, and move the
keyrings into this GPG._generated_keys directory, renamed in the format
"<GPG.homedir>/<GPG._generated_keys>/<fingerprint>.[pub|sec]ring.gpg".
Isis Lovecruft
drebs
Mikael Nordfeldth