[issue89] Type=0 entries in gpgconf: mismatch between docu and behavior

New submission from David Faure <[email protected]>:

gnupg/tools/README.gpgconf says that entries with Type=0 "don't take any 
argument at all", which in fact means they are booleans (set, or not set). 
(I would suggest calling this boolean instead of "no argument allowed" in the 
TYPEs description) 
 
The first bug is that the docu says such entries are either empty or "an 
unsigned number specifying how often the option occurs" (??), 
but when doing the following commands, it appears as "Y". 
gpgconf --change-options dirmngr 
no-greeting:1 
gpgconf --list-options dirmngr 
 -> shows no-greeting:0:3::0:0:::Y 
Y looks good, so I suggest to fix the docu to say it's simply: either empty or 
"Y". Why would such an option display a number, since there are int/uint types 
for that? 
 
The second possible bug is that the verbose option of dirmngr has the flag 4 
and the type 0, meaning that would be a list of booleans? Why is it a list? 
 
What's the meaning of FLAG 2? How can an argument be optional? "boolean or 
value"? This doesn't seem to be used yet, so it's a bit obscure to me. 
 
What's the meaning of ARGNAME? The unique name for the option is the first 
field already, and the localized description is there too... Furthermore, 
argname seems to be set to "N" for many dirmngr options, which doesn't make 
much sense. 
 
Question: is there another tool than dirmngr which supports gpgconf? The 3 
other components listed by gpgconf don't seem to provide anything at the 
moment. Just looking for more stuff to test my C++ parser and class API (e.g. I 
lack groups, there aren't any groups at the moment, and I could use more 
lists :) ). 
 
Thanks.

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assignedto: werner
messages: 367
nosy: david, werner
priority: bug
status: unread
title: Type=0 entries in gpgconf: mismatch between docu and behavior
topic: DirMngr, gpg
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