uncleanable expired sig

[David Shaw]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 09:43:13PM +0100, Alain Bench wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>     I have on my key 0xC1C46015 as fetched on subkeys.pgp.net several
> temporary signatures from PGP Global Directory Verification Key. Those
> signatures seem all verified, but are expired. With GnuPG 1.4.2 I do
> --edit and "clean sigs", and they are gone. Except one of those expired
> sigs done on 2005-09-04 stays uncleanable?
> 
> | $ gpg --check-sigs C1C46015
> | pub   1024D/C1C46015 2003-11-29
> | uid                  Alain Bench <veronatif at free.fr>
> | sig!3        C1C46015 2006-01-26  Alain Bench <veronatif at free.fr>
> | uid                  Alain Bench <albench at oreka.com>
> | sig!3        C1C46015 2005-01-01  Alain Bench <veronatif at free.fr>
> 	[snip some permanent sigs]
> | sig!      X  CA57AD7C 2005-09-04  PGP Global Directory Verification Key
> | sub   1024g/BFD57A5F 2003-11-29
> | sig!         C1C46015 2003-11-29  Alain Bench <veronatif at free.fr>

Yes.  That's the last signature you have from the GD.  The older ones
don't carry a meaning (the were replaced by the newer ones), but this
last one must stay as it does carry meaning - that as of 2005-09-04,
the GD had expired a signature for you.

David