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

[Ulrike Uhlig]

Hi!

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:
> 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 :-)

Ack! Thanks for pointing it out. This is not very intuitive from the
BTS' web interface.

>> 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.

Thanks.

> 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 confirm this.

> (I have not attempted to review them)

 As you can see on the upstream bug report, they've actually merged them
into master.

> 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.

This seems like a good idea. I'll ask the people who proposed the patches.

Cheers!
u.