bug#33439: emacs-26 branch: epg-decrypt-1 test failure on Fedora 29

bug#33439: emacs-26 branch: epg-decrypt-1 test failure on Fedora 29

[Paul Eggert]

The emacs-26 branch has a test failure on my Fedora 29 x86-64 platform. 
test/lisp/epg-tests.el fails the epg-decrypt-1 test. The symptom is 
(epg-error "Decryption failed" ""). I find this stuff to be a pain to 
debug and hope that someone else can debug it (or that the test be 
removed), but apparently Emacs's invocation of this this shell command:

"/usr/bin/gpg2" "--no-tty" "--status-fd" "1" "--yes" "--homedir" 
"/tmp/epg-tests-homedir2yvvtL" "--command-fd" "0" "--output" 
"/tmp/epg-outputsZghM1" "--decrypt" "--" "/tmp/epg-input9ZuUDT"

causes this output to be generated:

[GNUPG:] NEED_PASSPHRASE_SYM 3 3 2
[GNUPG:] ERROR get_passphrase 85
[GNUPG:] MISSING_PASSPHRASE
[GNUPG:] BEGIN_DECRYPTION
[GNUPG:] DECRYPTION_FAILED
[GNUPG:] END_DECRYPTION

and this causes epg.el to report a decryption failure.

bug#33439: emacs-26 branch: epg-decrypt-1 test failure on Fedora 29

[Glenn Morris]

Does this work?

--- a/test/lisp/epg-tests.el
+++ b/test/lisp/epg-tests.el
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ epg-tests-passphrase-callback
 
 (ert-deftest epg-decrypt-1 ()
   (with-epg-tests (:require-passphrase t)
+    (with-temp-file (expand-file-name "gpg.conf" epg-tests-home-directory)
+      (insert "ignore-mdc-error"))
     (should (equal "test"
 		   (epg-decrypt-string epg-tests-context "\
 -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----

bug#33439: emacs-26 branch: epg-decrypt-1 test failure on Fedora 29

[Paul Eggert]

On 12/14/18 4:49 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> +    (with-temp-file (expand-file-name "gpg.conf" epg-tests-home-directory)
> +      (insert "ignore-mdc-error"))

Yes, that causes the test to pass for Fedora 29 x86-64 (when I applied 
it to current emacs-26 branch). Thanks.