gpg 1.0.5: unusable secret key

[David Champion]

On 2001.06.13, in <87lmmwdz3j.fsf@alberti.gnupg.de>,
	"Werner Koch" <wk@gnupg.org> wrote:
>  || On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:10:32 -0500
>  || David Champion <dgc@uchicago.edu> wrote: 
> 
>  dc> What if this doesn't work?  Replacing all my keys is the only option?
> 
> Run gpg with option --debug=64 to see what's the problem with the
> key.  The debug output should give you some hints why gpg considers
> the key invalid.

OK, thanks.  GnuPG 1.0.6 tells me that this key expired Wed Jan 31
23:51:33 2001 CST, and won't use it:
	shell$ gpg --detach-sign file
	gpg: no default secret key: unusable secret key
	gpg: signing failed: unusable secret key

GnuPG 1.0.3 says that it *never* expires, and happily signs.

I'm afraid I've missed any notation in changelogs, announcements, etc
of changes relating to key expiry.  Can some tell me (or point me to)
what I'm missing?  I'm not sure whether to expect this problem
elsewhere.  At least one person I know is having the same problem,
though he doesn't know it yet, because he's using an older version of
gpg.  :)

Also, for future versions, it would be nice for gpg to say that the
signing key is expired rather than to say only that no usable key was
found.  (I have a default-key setting in ~/.gnupg/options, so there's a
single key that's specifically bad, I presume.)

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