[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#991306: dirmngr(8) man page documents obsolete keys.gnupg.net

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: dirmngr
Version: 2.2.27-2
Severity: minor
Tags: upstream
Forwarded: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5527

The dirmngr(8) man page says:

  The keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net uses round robin DNS to give
  a different keyserver each time you use it.

However, this is obsolete and no longer works: "gpg --recv-keys ..."
yields an error "gpg: keyserver receive failed: No name".

This is confirmed here:

  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66217436/gpg-keyserver-receive-failed-no-name

I've reported a bit more general bug at https://dev.gnupg.org/T5527
about keys.gnupg.net.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages dirmngr depends on:
ii  adduser              3.118
ii  gpgconf              2.2.27-2
ii  init-system-helpers  1.60
ii  libassuan0           2.5.4-1
ii  libc6                2.31-13
ii  libgcrypt20          1.8.7-6
ii  libgnutls30          3.7.1-5
ii  libgpg-error0        1.38-2
ii  libksba8             1.5.0-3
ii  libldap-2.4-2        2.4.57+dfsg-3
ii  libnpth0             1.6-3
ii  lsb-base             11.1.0

Versions of packages dirmngr recommends:
ii  gnupg  2.2.27-2

Versions of packages dirmngr suggests:
ii  dbus-user-session  1.12.20-2
ii  libpam-systemd     247.3-5
pn  pinentry-gnome3    <none>
pn  tor                <none>

-- no debconf information

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