On 2016-08-01 18:01:41, Jerome Charaoui wrote:
> Le 2016-08-01 à 17:55, Antoine Beaupré a écrit :
>> On 2016-07-16 18:57:10, Jerome Charaoui wrote:
>>> Alas, the previous patch is insufficient as monkeysign halts on a
>>> KEYEXPIRED error which occurs later on, probably when it's attempting to
>>> cleanup uids.
>>>
>>> I'm pondering whether we should instead patch expect_pattern() to always
>>> ignore KEYEXPIRED and SIGEXPIRED messages.
>>>
>>> Would this be detrimental in other keysigning scenarios?
>> 
>> I don't know.
>> 
>> I wonder if the simplest approach here would simply be to avoid
>> exporting / importing expired material...
>
> That approach would indeed be simpler, however it would make monkeysign
> useless when used on keys which have an expired subkey, which imo is not
> an insignificant subset of keys.

I meant filtering out expired subkeys.

> Furthermore, according to GPG's own documentation, the KEYEXPIRED is not
> a useful status message:
> http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=blob;f=doc/DETAILS;h=645814a4c1fa8e8e735850f0f93b17617f60d4c8;hb=refs/heads/STABLE-BRANCH-2-0#l367

Madness. But yeah, this does seem to say KEYEXPIRED should be ignored...

a.
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