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show-unusable-subkeys claims "expired: never" when primary key is expired
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If you have a subkey with no expiration date, but the associated primary key is expired, and you use --list-options show-unusable-subkeys, the result is a line like:

sub   rsa4096 2014-01-25 [E] [expired: never     ]

This is confusing, and should probably be made less-confusing.

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2.1.22, 1.4.22

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rG265e6d670682 g10: Copy expiredate from primary key when marked expired.

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dkg created this task.Aug 8 2017, 4:51 PM
• werner triaged this task as Normal priority.Aug 8 2017, 7:31 PM
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Funny. We should make show-unusable-subkeys the default to detect such flaws ;-)

• gniibe changed the task status from Open to Testing.May 23 2019, 2:41 AM
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There is also a confusing case: a subkey expiration date is set, but the associated primary key is expired.
Pushing a fix in master.

• gniibe added a commit: rG265e6d670682: g10: Copy expiredate from primary key when marked expired..May 23 2019, 2:42 AM
• gniibe closed this task as Resolved.May 27 2019, 10:11 AM
• ebo mentioned this in T6473: Kleopatra: "Change Validity" does ignore the option "Also update the validity period of the subkeys".Jun 14 2023, 11:24 AM