[Bug 1565963] Re: gpg secret keys not migrated after upgrade to gnupg 2.1

[Mario Limonciello]

thanks for your comments daniel.

I've tried to reproduce this as well and couldn't either.
I started with a Xenial VM that had an older version of gnupg2 than 2.1 installed.
I generated a key, and verified I could see it with both gpg and gpg2 as well as in seahorse.

I then upgraded to gnupg2 2.1 and checked with gpg2 --list-secret-keys
and the import process worked properly.

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Title:
  gpg secret keys not migrated after upgrade to gnupg 2.1

Status in gnupg2 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  After upgrading to gnupg 2.1 I can no longer see my keys in seahorse
  (Passwords and Keys in apps scope in unity) and evolution cannot find
  my gpg keys. Someone said this might be related to
  https://www.gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html#autostart and
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796931

  Reading the Debian bug I see someone mentioned that running this might help:
  $ gpg2 --import < ./.gnupg/secring.gpg

  I did that and gpg2 went through each of my private keys to import
  them. When done I logged out and back in and seahorse saw my keys. I'm
  not sure why gpg2 didn't prompt me before.

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