On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 05:10:31PM -0500, Jason Harris wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 04:15:29PM -0500, David Shaw wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:55:23PM -0500, Jason Harris wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Werner Koch wrote: > > > > > I forgot to insert the NEWS for 1.4.1; there are actually not that > > > > many as those for the last release. Here we go: > > > > > > > * New "import-unusable-sigs" and "export-unusable-sigs" tags for > > > > --import-options and --export-options. These are off by > > > > default, and cause GnuPG to not import or export key signatures > > > > that are not usable (e.g. expired signatures). > > > > > > Gah! It seems these are _ON_ by default, are undocumented in the > > > manual page, (aren't picked up when listed in ~/.gnupg/options,) > > > and _CAN NOT_ be turned off: > > > > Huh? Your own experiment shows they are off by default: > > (Sorry, I meant the stripping of expired signatures is on by default.) > > It was my impression that expired sigs would be retained by default. > Removing expired sigs is tantamount to removing expired/revoked > userids and subkeys, IMO, and should not be done by default.
I don't agree. An expired signature is not relevant - it is just meaningless bytes at this point. Note also that expired user IDs and subkeys are, in fact, removed. That's not new behavior, by the way: it has been this way for as long as I can remember. > > They can be turned ON if you want. Like all --import-options and > > --export-options, they apply to --import and --export only. If you > > want them to apply to keyserver operations, list them in > > --keyserver-options. See the manual. > > I only see "unusable" in my manual page for the following: I mean the instructions to put the --import-options and --export-options in --keyserver-options if you want them to apply to keyserver operations. The command line you gave as an example was incorrect in that you specified --import-options but were doing a keyserver operation. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
