Bug#619969: seahorse and seahorse-plugins should not encourage the use of pgp.mit.edu as a keyserver

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Mon Mar 28 18:36:04 UTC 2011


Package: seahorse
Version: 2.30.1-2
Severity: normal

pgp.mit.edu is out-dated and broken as a keyserver [0].  

seahorse-2.30.1/data/seahorse.schemas.in and
seahorse-plugins-2.30.1/data/seahorse-plugins.schemas.in both link to
it by default (and it is referenced in many of the translations as
well).

This means that users of seahorse and seahorse-plugins are unlikely to
get updates, and will miss key revocations, expiration adjustments,
and signature revocations.

I've reported this upstream [1] as well, but debian should fix it for
our users regardless of upstream's choices.

     --dkg

[0] http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2010-November/039782.html
[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645995

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash






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