[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#659905: Short key collisions

[Elena ``of Valhalla'']

This ticket has remained open for a few years; nowadays short-ids are
getting more and more deprecated, with the interfaces moving forwards
towards using long-ids and full fingerprint.

Could the bug be closed as no longer really relevant in the way gnupg
should be currently used?

> I find strange that when I ask for a key what is returned is actually a
> *master* key as well as all the possible *subkeys*.  This obviously
> means that the possibility of a collision is bigger.

Personally I find it convienent to be able to download a key by giving
the id of a subkey as that is what is displayed e.g. by mutt when an
email is signed by an unavailable key.

-- 
Elena ``of Valhalla''