bug with one key's private keys spread over several keyrings when signing keys

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 06/03/2010 10:16 AM, Hagen Fürstenau wrote:
> You could argue that gpg should keep searching for a non-dummy primary
> key.

I would make this argument.

If gpg can distinguish dummy keys from non-dummy keys, and it has in its
posession a non-dummy version of the key in question, it is a bug to not
use it when the user requests it.

> Absent such a feature, the obvious workaround is to order your
> keyrings in such a way that the real primary key is found first.

I agree this is a workaround (and it looks like the OP has already
stumbled across it, as per the first message in this thread).

I would disagree with the characterization of this needed bugfix as a
"feature request", though.

Hauke, would you mind filing a bug about this at the project bugtracker
so it is at least on a to-do list someplace?

  https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/

Thanks for the report.

	--dkg

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