On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:29:00PM +0000, Steve Kemp wrote:
> I'm trying to remove a couple of obsolete email addresses from my GPG key.
>
> Using the "deluid" command available after running "gpg --edit-key" works
> successfully. But once I upload my modified key to various keyservers I
> see the identities be re-added by the keyserver at debian.org:
...
> Here we see "new user IDs:2" - and as this suggests the removed IDs
> are back! I dont want them anymore!
>
> What can I do in this case? Is it just a matter of being more patient
> after uploading the key. Or should I report a bug to the Debian keyring
> pseudo-package?
You want to revoke the uids (revuid) rather than deleting them; there's
no way you can delete them off other people's keyrings, or the
keyservers, so you mark them as deleted instead by revoking them.
J.
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OK, if we can't have a tour, can we at
least have a look around?
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