Re: [PATCH] gpg: Exclude revoked UTKs from the key validation process.

Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to check and to reply!

Indeed, you're right, I tried reproducing this issue again,
but I couldn't either. And I cannot for the life of me remember
what I did differently or what I missed the last time to think
there was a bug there :/

My apologies for the false report and for the noise here.

Glop

Philip:
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> Hi,
> 
> thank you for the report.
> 
> On Sun, 7 Jun 2026 18:36:53 +0200
> Glop via Gnupg-devel <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > In order to reproduce this:
> > 1. Generate a new public/secret key pair (say, MyKey).
> > 2. Import a new public key in the keyring (say, OtherKey).
> > 3. Sign OtherKey using MyKey.
> > 4. Check that OtherKey has now `full` validity.
> > 5. Revoke MyKey.
> > 6. Run `gpg --check-trustdb` to forcefully update the trust DB.
> > 7. Check the validity of OtherKey: it still shows `full`, while
> >    it should in fact be `unknown`, since MyKey's signature should
> >    not be trusted anymore.
> > 
> > I tried this on the GnuPG 2.4 and 2.5 branches, and both are impacted.
> 
> I could not reproduce this with GnuPG 2.4.9 and 2.5.20.
> After Step 6 `gpg --check-trustdb` the formerly "[  full  ]" trusted
> key is shown with "[ unknown]" trust.
> In your test, was the 'OtherKey' maybe signed by any other keys than
> 'MyKey'?
> 
> Philip
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