dealing with misplaced signatures

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:29, dshaw at jabberwocky.com said:

> mangled it or it was imported already mangled doesn't matter).  GPG
> fetches it, and there is some code to move misplaced packets to the
> right place.  Unfortunately, as you noticed, that code does not work

At least in master there is no code to move packet during import; we
only delete certain misplaced packets.

> This code actually dates to 1998.  The comment: "* Note: This function
> does not work if there is more than one user ID."

That is only used by --edit-key as a fix to a bug in a very early
version of GnuPG.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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