Bug? or misuse?

[Michael Sobolev]

Hi.

I seem to find a behaviour that I cannot understand.  What I do:

mss at despair$ gpg --gen-key

As result I get a pair of keys for Test User.  I should note that I specified
2y (2 years) as a period of validness for this key.

mss at despair$ gpg --edit-key "Test User"
gpg (GNUPG) 0.3.5; Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
Secret key is available.

pub   768G/384A9226  created: 1998-09-16 expires: never      trust: -/u
(1)  Test User <test at despair.transas.com>

Command>

Why it shows "never" for date of expiry?

TIA,

--
Mike