[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#854359: Bug#854359: gnupg: always fails when --recv-keys

[NIIBE Yutaka]

Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 9:02 PM, NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe at fsij.org> wrote:
>>
>> The keyservers have a problem and the current implementation of dirmngr
>> doesn't like this particular problem.
>
> I think this conclusion is just the same as upstream.
> So applying upstream's patch [0] should fix this issue.
>
> [0] https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=commitdiff;h=b200e636ab20d2aa93d9f71f3789db5a04af0a56

??? Please note that I am a developer of the upstream.  The patch you
addressed is already included in 2.1.18.

My point is that currently there is a little issue in keyservers side
themselves.  One of keyservers in hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net doesn't
have valid combination of PTR record and A record.  Current
implementation of dirmngr is not robost enough to handle this
glitch ... which should be fixed, IMO.
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