If anyone here is a `pass` [1] user, and you're using 2.1.1, or 2.1.0, I encourage you to upgrade. These two older versions of GnuPG had some nasty bugs, fixes for which the pass community sent upstream where they were accepted.

The result is that pass 1.6.5 and GnuPG 2.1.2 work nicely together.

[1] http://www.passwordstore.org/