Package: signing-party
Version: 0.4.13-1
Severity: important

I wanted to sign Steffen Joeris' key after I met him in Alice Springs,
but I couldn't do that because the version of my key in
~/.caff/gnupghome/pubring.gpg had expired, but I had updated the one in
~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg ages ago and republished it. It took me a while to
realise that "unusable secret key" meant that the public portion had
expired. Simply exporting it from the gpg public keyring and importing
it into the caff public keyring.

So, I think it would be good if caff could either update the signing key
from the keyservers, or from ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg before proceeding with
signing.

Also, I asked micah about this and he said this:

<pabs> you around? I need some help with caff
<pabs> it thinks my key is expired because the one in the public keyring
in /home/pabs/.caff/gnupghome didn't get updated from /home/pabs/.gnupg/
<pabs> I guess I should just import from one and export to the other?
<pabs> ah, nevermind, that seems to have worked
<pabs> weird it doesn't do that automatically
<micah> yeah I've noticed odd things with caff like that
<micah> for example, I tried changing my signing key to a new key and it
didn't notice it
<pabs> I think I'll report a bug about that
<micah> and the only way I figured it out was by moving my .caff
directory out of the way and then it re-made it with the config
<micah> yeah, I meant to when it happened to me, but I was confused
about what happened so I should have gone back and re did it all to
figure out what exactly the problem was and report a but, but ... i
didn't :)
<micah> so if you do report that bug, thanks, because you reported it
for me too :)
<micah> and I'm sorry I didn't report it sooner so you didn't have to
<pabs> micah: mind if I paste your problem in the bug too?
<micah> no go ahead

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages signing-party depends on:
ii  gnupg                         1.4.6-2    GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  libgnupg-interface-perl       0.33-6     Perl interface to GnuPG
ii  libmailtools-perl             1.77-1     Manipulate email in perl programs
ii  libmime-perl                  5.425-1    Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant m
ii  libtext-template-perl         1.44-1.1   Text::Template perl module

Versions of packages signing-party recommends:
ii  dialog                    1.1-20071028-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  exim4                     4.69-1         meta-package to ease Exim MTA (v4)
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail- 4.69-1         lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  libpaper-utils            1.1.23         library for handling paper charact
ii  libtext-iconv-perl        1.4-3          converts between character sets in
ii  recode                    3.6-14         Character set conversion utility
ii  whiptail                  0.52.2-11.1    Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

-- 
bye,
pabs

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