[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#870505: can't sign when subkey expired, insufficient error message

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Control: tags 870505 + upstream
Control: forwarded 870505 https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/696/

Hi Daniel--

On Wed 2017-08-02 18:43:41 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> It would be really useful to have some of this automated through
> Enigmail too: it could:
>
> a) show a message telling you when the subkey expired
>
> b) remind you to update it on the machine with the master key
>
> c) offer to try and fetch the updated key from a keyserver or import it
> from a file
>
> As a bonus, maybe it can even warn the user 30 days before it expires?

I totally agree with this proposal.  Enigmail already does this for
expiration for primary keys.  maybe it just needs similar logic for
subkeys?

I've forwarded the suggestion upstream, as linked above.

Thanks for the feedback,

     --dkg
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