Problem with key showing up as expired...

[David J. Weller-Fahy]

* Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> [2003-08-22 22:22]:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:10:05 -0800, David J Weller-Fahy said:
> > (as usual) I'm wrong, but in this particular case the main key was
> > created 2003-08-05 and expired on 2003-08-07.  However, there is a
> > subkey that was created on 2003-08-05 and expires on 2009-03-08?
>
> The expiration date of the primary takes precedence.

Understood.  Is it normal for the primary key to have expired, but the
sub key to still be valid?

Regards,
    David