gpg 2.0.11 reports invalid packets on keys from gpg 1.4.9 and keyservers

[Werner Koch]

On Sat, 23 May 2009 07:47, john.marshall at riverwillow.com.au said:

> Please note that in an endeavour to eliminate discussion about
> keyservers and armor, I believe I have reduced this to a pure GnuPG
> native export/import issue across versions.

Can you please send me that key by PM?  I just build a vanilla 2.0.11
and imported my copy of the key without problems:

  $ GNUPGHOME=`pwd` sh
  sh-2.05b$ ./gpg2 -k
  gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `/foo/gnupg-2.0.11/g10'
  gpg: keyring `/foo/gnupg-2.0.11/g10/pubring.gpg' created
  gpg: /foo/gnupg-2.0.11/g10/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
  sh-2.05b$ ./gpg2 -v --import ~/anand.gpg 
  gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `/foo/gnupg-2.0.11/g10'
  gpg: keyring `/foo/gnupg-2.0.11/g10/secring.gpg' created
  gpg: pub  1024R/FC05DA69 1997-05-12  Anand xxxxxx
  gpg: using PGP trust model
  gpg: key FC05DA69: public key "Anand xxxxx" imported
  gpg: Total number processed: 1
  gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
  gpg: 1 keys cached (547 signatures)
  gpg: 0 keys processed (0 validity counts cleared)
  gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
  


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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