Using "Manually copy..." documentation to copy GnuPG folder hides persistent public keyring created in Tails 2.x

on a fresh Tails 3.0 installation, /live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/gnupg/pubring.kbx and /live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/gnupg/pubring.kbx~ is created. Older versions of GPG named the public keyring file pubring.gpg. As a result, following https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/persistence/copy/ fails because pubring.kbx is not overwriten, therefore, gpg use it by default and make the user believe that her/his keyring disappeared. It also causes seahorse to be really slow.

I tried with two different usb sticks, both installed from ISO with Tails installer on Debian Sid.

rm -rf pubring.kbx* solved the problem for me.

I don’t know if it is the documentation or gpg’s configuration that needs to be modified.

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Related to #15014 (closed)

Original created by @goupille on 13251 (Redmine)

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