Inability to export and then import my secret key

[Mirimir]

On 08/12/2015 04:39 AM, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 12:25, mirimir at riseup.net said:
> 
>> Well, GnuPG 1.4 _definitely_ doesn't support importing secret keys. But
> 
> That is not correct.  All version support import of secret keys.  What
> versions < 2.1 don't allow is merging (updating) a secret key.  This can
> be problematic in some cases but most of the time it is sufficient to
> delete the secret key first and then import the other version of the
> secret key.

I clearly recall 1) exporting both my private and public keys from an
old system, 2) importing them into a new system with no existing keys,
and 3) finding that I could decrypt, but not sign.

But I must have done something wrong. Sorry to confuse things.

> Shalom-Salam,
> 
>    Werner
>