Bug in Seahorse's "remote key search"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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seahorse |
Expired
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Low
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seahorse (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: seahorse
I firstly published my public key using seahorse but I made an error on one on the email adress of one of my my uids.
Then, as the version of seahorse I run (2.26.1) doesn't allow to revoke uids, I used the gpg command line interface to revoke the bad uid, and to send the modified public keyring to the server (gpg.mit.edu).
When I searched my name (matthieu) using searhorse's search, I realised it has disappeared from the list (perhaps the manipulations I described above are only a coincidence).
I used the cli to search my name (gpg --search-keys matthieu) and I found my keys easily.
After a lot of manipulations, I finally understood that seahorse sees me as "user attribute packet" and not as COUDERT Matthieu : I searched the word "matt" instead of "matthieu" and I discovered that I wasn't alone in that case, many other keyring are named like this.
You can try : search words of four letters (not those which you think about ;-) ) : e.g. : "cora", "sieg" -> there are many people called "user attribute packet". I don't know why, but they seem to only appear when I type four letter "names".
I tried 2.27.1 (built version from http://
My opinion : I also published a picture of me (and I think this is the real "user attribute packet" item) : perhaps the search engine is buggy and sees it as the primary uid.
I hope this problem will be easy to solve.
Thanks for the work you already did.
Matthieu COUDERT.
Changed in seahorse: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in seahorse: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in seahorse: | |
importance: | Unknown → Low |
Changed in seahorse: | |
status: | Confirmed → Expired |
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