gnupg/BUGS

		   List of some known bugs
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This following list contains those bugs which we are aware of.	Please
make sure that bugs you report are not listed here.  If you can fix one
of these bugs/limitations we will certainly be glad to receive a patch.
(Please note that we need a disclaimer if a patch is longer than about
10 lines; but it may help anyway to show us where we have to fix it. Do
an "info standards" to find out why a disclaimer is needed for GNU.)

Format: severity: [  *] to [***], no, first reported, by, version.
Bugs which are marked with "FIX: yyyy-mm-dd" are fixed in the CVS
and after about half a day in the rsync snapshots.
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[  *] #3
    --list-packets should continue even w/o a passphrase (or in batch
    mode).  Maybe we have to move it to a separate program??

[  *] #4  1999-01-13 <ralf.stephan@fitug.de> 0.9.1
    v3 key 'expiration date' problem:
       1. generate a key, set expiration date
       2. <do other things, deleting etc.>
       3. edit a v3 secret key, try to set expiration date
       - output: "You can't change...
       4. save
       5. key has expiration date from 1. and gpg reports that pubkey
	  and seckey differ.
    The for loop the exp.date is set before v3 detection?
    [is this bug still alive? - can someone please check it]

[ **] #6 1999-02-22 <backes@rhrk.uni-kl.de> 0.9.3
    Bus error on IRIX 6.4: Crash while doing a keygen. I think while creating
    the prime.	Other bus errors are reported when doing a "gpg README"
    on sparc-solaris2.6.
    --> Solaris fixed.
    --> IRIX bug still there but someone should test this again!
	(<mack@sgi.com> reports that it is still alive in 1.0.0)

[  *] #18 1999-05-27 <Steffen.Zahn@icn.siemens.de> 0.9.7
    rndunix hangs on hp/ux.  The problem is related to my_plcose which is
    not always called.	(I suggest to use EGD instead of rndunix.)

[  *] #22 1999-07-22
    Solaris make has problems with the generated POTFILES - seems to be a
    gettext bug.  Use GNU make as a workaround.
    FIX: 1999-12-03 (meanwhile fixed in gettext)

[  *] #23 1999-09-03 <todd.brooks@yale.edu> 0.9.11
    Only the first signature of a cleartext sig seems to be verified.
    Can't fix it in 1.0 because the code is semi-frozen.
    HMMM: Can't reprodude the bug here - it just works.

[  *] #24 1999-09-05 <marcus@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> 0.9.11
    Does not link libc and libz expect when removing all "-lc -lz" except
    for the last one.  This happens on some systems when not using the
    GNU ld.  This need to be fixed in libtool.

[ **] #25 1999-10-04  <wk@gnupg.org> 1.0
    Validity check based on user name is only done when listing a key;
    the key ID based checking (selecting the user ID with the most
    validity) is used in all other cases.  The Edit menu does not have
    a way to disable user ID based validity.
    FIX: 1999-12-03 (1.0.x only)

[  *] #26 1999-11-11
    gpg still does not take UTF8 strings to select a UID.
    FIX: 1999-11-12

[ **] #27 1999-11-12 <oren@hishome.net>
    Unknown packets (type 17 - photo ID?) mess up the checking
    of self-signature because they are simply ignored.
    FIX: 1999-11-12 (1.0.x only)

[  *] #28 1999-11-29
    --list-key will only emit an error about unknown UIDs when all UIDs
    are unknown.
    [Postponed for 1.2]


[ **] #29 1999-12-01 <karney@pppl.gov>
    Using a --gen-key on a new user account (w/o ~./gnupg) doesn't pay
    attention to the standard options files, which get's installed
    afterwards.
    FIX: 1999-12-02





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