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authorWerner Koch <[email protected]>2024-06-21 08:19:00 +0000
committerWerner Koch <[email protected]>2024-06-21 08:19:00 +0000
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sm: Emit user IDs in colon mode even if the Subject is empty.
* sm/keylist.c (list_cert_colon): Rework listing of user IDs. -- Only in colon mode this did not work. Note that an updated libksba is anyway required to parse a certificate with an empty Subject. GnuPG-bug-id: 7171
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@@ -271,7 +271,10 @@ described here.
The origin of the key or the user ID. This is an integer
optionally followed by a space and an URL. This goes along with
- the previous field. The URL is quoted in C style.
+ the previous field. The URL is quoted in C style. Note that the
+ origin is stored for a user ID as well as for the entire key. The
+ latter solves the cases where a key is updated by fingerprint and
+ and thus there is no way to know which user ID shall be used.
*** Field 21 - Comment