GPA - unsupported certificate

[Dark Penguin]

I wanted to report a few bugs in GPA that I've been getting on Debian 
Squeeze, but I thought I should check if they still exist in the latest 
version. So, I've installed Debian Jessie and got the latest release 
(0.9.9) to see if there was any improvement since few years ago.

So, I start "gpa". The first thing I see is the Key Manager window and 
an invitation to create a new key. On top of it, an error message 
("Unsupported certificate") pops up immediately; on top of this message, 
"GnuPG is rebuilding the trust database", which "might take a few 
seconds", but takes forever.

I tried to wait, but in the end I just had to close the "trust database" 
popup and the "Unsupported certificate" error message. then I proceeded 
with generating a new key, and made sure all those old bugs are still 
there. And what's more, every time I open the Key Manager window, the 
"Unsupported certificate" error pops up again, and there are no keys in 
the Key Manager. Not even the one I've created.

Are those really bugs or am I doing something wrong?.. I've tried that 
on an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS livecd right after booting it up, to see if it 
works on one of the most popular distributions, but all the problems 
were exactly the same.

So, the problems are there on Debian Jessie with 3.16 kernel, gpa 
0.9.5/0.9.9 and gpg 1.4.18/2.0.26 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with 3.19 kernel, 
gpa 0.9.4-1 and gpg 1.4.16/2.0.22. (I didn't upgrade Ubuntu before 
trying. Also, seems like GPA uses the gpg2-branch, but does it really 
call upon gpg2 and not old gpg, which is hardly possible to remove from 
the system without breaking a LOT of dependencies like APT?..) Should I 
go on and submit all those things as bug reports, or am I missing 
something important here?.. Seriously, things don't work out of the box 
and nobody has even noticed?.. I just have a hard time believing it...


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darkpenguin