Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (getkey.c:2079:merge_selfsigs)

[Phil Pennock]

On 2006-02-27 at 23:39 -0500, David Shaw wrote:
> This is a heavily patched GnuPG release.  Did you try this on the
> official version?

I hadn't, since the official version has the mpicoder bug which causes
it to abort whilst processing some keys on my keyring; Gentoo pulls in
your patch, after I noted this and pointed to it;
 <URL:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gnupg-devel&m=112554412404623&w=2>
 <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/app-crypt/gnupg/files/gnupg-1.4.2-mpicoder.patch>

Taking the official 1.4.2.1 code and applying that patch, things worked;
but I then used the Gentoo gpg and things still worked.  So I'm now
confused.  I don't see what's different between the set-up yesterday and
today, except that baseline code has run over the keyring; I ran "gpg
--update-trustdb" with the Gentoo version and the problem is still
absent.

Okay, thanks.
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