Apt supports only up to 40 GPG keys and provides unhelpful error messages when there are more than 40
Bug #1550789 reported by
Tal Liron
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #1263540: Apt-get reports NO_PUBKEY gpg error for keys that are present in trusted.gpg..
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Bug Description
First of all, the 40 key limit is unrealistic for heavy Ubuntu users. None of my 40+ keys is meaningless. I use many repositories, including PPAs, for various reasons.
But, when you do hit the limit, you get very unhelpful error messages, such as this:
W: GPG error: http://
Nowhere are you told that you have too many keys, and nowhere do you get a suggestion no how to solve this error.
See, for example, this bug for the confusion that this causes:
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