[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#854038: Bug#854038: [gnupg] --sender option seems not to be respected when verifying

Fri Feb 3 11:20:07 UTC 2017

On Fri,  3 Feb 2017 11:47, ktns.87 at gmail.com said:

> gpg(1) reads that `--sender' option can be used to suppress some uids
> printed by TOFU code when verifying messages, but the option seems to
> have no effect.

It does not do much right now but we have it here so that GPGME can
provide it.

What is currently does is to use the first given mail address for the
signer's user id signature sub-packet; but only if the user id was not
specified by mail address (-u).

Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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