misleading apt-get warning message from apt-key

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #345956 http://bugs.debian.org/345956

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Message-ID: <20060104141316.9671.62007.reportbug@galeon>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:13:16 +0100
From: Emil Nowak <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: misleading apt-get warning message from apt-key

Package: apt
Version: 0.6.43
Severity: minor

when running apt-get update
I have the following warning/error message:
"W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems"

This suggestion, about running apt-get update is misleading, because it
doesn't fix anything. There should be some message, about apt-key or about
keyring some link to manual.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-686
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-5 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:58:05 +0100
From: Harald Dunkel <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: please check #316915

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It seems that this is a dup of #316915, isn't it?

Regards

Harri

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Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:17:26 +0000
From: "Adam D. Barratt" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, Ferenczi Viktor <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#346002: apt: GPG error when updating

# BTS control commands
package apt
# Raising severities as per the rationale in #345891
severity 346002 serious
severity 345823 serious
severity 345956 serious
merge 346002 345823 345956 345891
thanks

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 20:25 +0100, Ferenczi Viktor wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.43
> Severity: normal
>
>
> I got an unusal GPG error when updating with apt-get update:
[...]
> W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F

This is the same issue as reported in #345891 and the two bugs I've just
merged with it (see above). Merging this report and the other three.

Regards,

Adam

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Marking as duplicate based on debbugs merge (345823,345956)

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 27959.

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Message-ID: <010301c616ab$31bdf870$eb00010a@andromeda>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:33:15 -0000
From: "Adam D. Barratt" <email address hidden>
To: "jetxee" <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#347540: GPG error on update: public key not available

reassign 347540 apt
severity 347540 serious
merge 347540 345891
thanks

On Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:08 PM, jetxee <email address hidden> wrote:

> Package: ftp.debian.org
>
> As of Wed Jan 11 12:58:48 CET 2006, I get the following error messages
> on aptutude update:
>
> W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.it.debian.org testing Release: The following
> signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not
> available: NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F
[...]
> I failed to found a contemporary report on this subject in BTS, so
> post a new one.

That's because you're looking in the wrong place. :-)

This is http://bugs.debian.org/345891 against apt and those merged with it.

Merging this report also.

Regards,

Adam