Why does import refuse to merge a new subkey?

Phil Susi psusi at ubuntu.com
Thu Nov 2 20:37:08 CET 2017


On 11/2/2017 3:04 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote:
> On 02/11/17 16:58, Phil Susi wrote:
>> Why is this?
> 
> What version of GnuPG is this? It's a well-known limitation of GnuPG 1.4
> and 2.0, but my 2.1.18 allows me to add secret subkeys through --import.

Looks like I've still got 1.4.20 on one machine ( when I usually forget
to run gpg2 instead of just gpg ) but 2.0.28 on another also did it I'm
pretty sure.  I guess I'll try again and make sure to use a recent gpg2.

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