Public bug reported: First of all, the 40 key limit is unrealistic for heavy Ubuntu users. None of my 40+ keys is meaningless. I use many repositories, including PPAs, for various reasons.
But, when you do hit the limit, you get very unhelpful error messages, such as this: W: GPG error: http://mirrors.gigenet.com trusty Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5 NO_PUBKEY 3B4FE6ACC0B21F32 Nowhere are you told that you have too many keys, and nowhere do you get a suggestion no how to solve this error. See, for example, this bug for the confusion that this causes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1263540 ** Affects: apt (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1550789 Title: Apt supports only up to 40 GPG keys and provides unhelpful error messages when there are more than 40 Status in apt package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: First of all, the 40 key limit is unrealistic for heavy Ubuntu users. None of my 40+ keys is meaningless. I use many repositories, including PPAs, for various reasons. But, when you do hit the limit, you get very unhelpful error messages, such as this: W: GPG error: http://mirrors.gigenet.com trusty Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5 NO_PUBKEY 3B4FE6ACC0B21F32 Nowhere are you told that you have too many keys, and nowhere do you get a suggestion no how to solve this error. See, for example, this bug for the confusion that this causes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1263540 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1550789/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
