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Kleopatra: General error if ADSK is not configured correctly
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Description

If you mistakenly give a fingerprint of a primary key instead of a subkey fingerprint for encryption to the configuration option default-new-key-adsk and try to create a new keypair in Kleopatra, you get a general error:

We need a specific error for that instead of the general one.
Gpg reports "invalid ADSK specified".

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ikloecker added a subscriber: ikloecker.

Yes, gpg logs "invalid ADSK ... specified", but it doesn't emit a status error. This needs to be changed in gpg.