Bug#900270: libcryptui: Fails to display the signing key when the signing key has multiple subkeys

[Simon McVittie]

Control: tags -1 + patch
Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774611

On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 at 14:11:00 +0000, Ulrike Uhlig wrote:
> ping ^

If you're pinging a bug like this, please keep the subject line that
identifies which package and bug you're talking about: maintainers will
often see these messages completely out-of-context, and having to look
up a bug number before you can do anything is not a great incentive to
work on a particular bug :-)

> Unfortunately upstream has not replied, but you might still be able to
> cherry-pick the patches… is that something you'd consider?

Adding metadata that could help someone do that.

The patches appear to be:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libcryptui/commit/bdd2fd518bac805e379ab6b23cc450d257d524fa
"daemon: Add a hack to find subkeys identities"
and
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libcryptui/commit/6a4d4b83bd1d82bcc21bf66143fecd04f8e872a6
"daemon: Fall back to displaying the key ID if the key is not found"

Can you confirm that applying those two patches is sufficient?

(I have not attempted to review them)

Back in 2017, upstream did say:
> This library is on its last legs, however

I believe seahorse is not very maintained upstream at the moment, so
if it's important to you, it might be a good idea for someone with a
visible history of contributions to talk to upstream GNOME developers
(perhaps the GNOME release team or the desktop-devel mailing list, if
the maintainer of libcryptui can't be contacted?) about the possibility
of taking over maintenance.

    smcv