Re: build-aux/announce-gen: amending gpg --verify command line

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-08-22 08:53, Ineiev wrote:
> -  gpg --verify $tarballs[0].sig
> +  gpg --verify $tarballs[0].sig $tarballs[0]

Why is this an improvement? You mention the case of a non-detached signature, but if the .sig file is (mistakenly) non-detached, why would adding $tarballs[0] change gpg's behavior? Won't gpg verify $tarballs[0].sig and ignore $tarballs[0]?

> gpg emits a warning when it's absent, like
> 
>   gpg: assuming signed data in 'file.tar.gz'

As I understand it, that line is merely informational; it's not a warning.

If the warning is annoying, perhaps we should use gpg's --quiet option?
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