Ubuntu
gnupg package

asks to run --check-trustdb too often

Bug #13031 reported by Michael P. Soulier
4
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gnupg (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
James Troup

Bug Description

Every time I run

gpg --check-trustdb

it returns something like this when it's done.

gpg: next trustdb check due at 2005-03-05

But the next day, it tells me to run it again, when it shouldn't need running
for weeks according to its own output.

Seems kinda broken to me.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

I've seen this as well; every time I turn around it is nagging me about
--check-trustdb.

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote :

You probably have auto-downloading of keys enabled. This way you will quite
often have new public keys in your keyring that are not in your trustdb. It's a
feature that gpg nags, not a bug. The no-auto-check-trustdb option might help.

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

As Dennis points out (I happened past this code just now) it's nagging you because you've introduced new keys into your keyring which therefore means you need a trustdb

The nag is perfectly valid

Changed in gnupg:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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