Bisected from svn://svn.debian.org/pgp-tools/caff signing-party 1.1.12 contains caff r741, r753 fixes the issue: svn log -r753 svn://svn.debian.org/pgp-tools -v ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r753 | guilhem-guest | 2015-01-03 12:07:11 +0100 (Sat, 03 Jan 2015) | 7 lines Changed paths: M /trunk/caff/caff M /trunk/debian/changelog caff: Deprecate $CONFIG{'secret-keyring'}. Instead, the secret keyring (secring.gpg for GnuPG < 2.1, private-keys-v1.d for GnuPG 2.1 or latter) is to be symlinked into ~/.caff/gnupghome. Symlinks are automatically created if ~/.caff/gnupghome doesn't contain a secret keyring or directory. Closes: #771857 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771857 This was with gnupg 2.0.27