Launchpad itself

+editpgpkeys could be more helpful

Bug #85643 reported by David Allouche
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Medium
Matthew Revell
Launchpad itself 2.2.6

Bug Description

The gpg usage directions on the +editpgpkeys page are not accurate enough for people who are not familiar with gpg.

 * It does not explain what is "key-id"
 * It has slightly incorrect instructions, as --send-keys appears not to anything without an explicit key id, and anyway should always be used with an explicit key-id.

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David Allouche (ddaa) wrote :

It could explain what "key-id" is by showing an example of output of --list-keys and pointing which bit is the key-id.

It should have <var>key-id</var> after each occurence of --send-keys.

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David Allouche (ddaa) wrote :

The place where --send-keys is mentioned w/o key-id is the key_retrieval_failed error message. Actually it should probably be "--send-key <var>key-id</var>" without a s.

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RMY (reponses) wrote :

in source code of this page in the lines :
<li>
          Ensure the key has been uploaded to a keyserver. To do this:
          <pre>gpg --send-key <var>key-id</var></pre>

</li>

could be added :
"i.e gpg --list-keys result looks like :
/home/yourlogin/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
---------------------------------
pub 1024D/XXXXXXX 2007-02-16
uid your name (comment) <your@mail>

where XXXXXXX is the key-id"

Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Diogo Matsubara (matsubara) wrote :

More help should be added to the Help panel (top LHS of the screen).
Maybe add a link to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuPrivacyGuardHowto as requested in one of the duplicates of this bug

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Magnus Hedemark (viridari) wrote :

Additionally GnuPG comes shipped by default without a keyserver configured, so the instructions should include "--keyserver keyserver.example.com" in the --send-keys step.

Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)
Changed in launchpad-foundations:
assignee: nobody → matthew.revell
Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)
Changed in launchpad-foundations:
milestone: none → 2.1.12
Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)
Changed in launchpad-foundations:
milestone: 2.1.12 → 2.2.1
Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)
Changed in launchpad-foundations:
milestone: 2.2.1 → 2.2.2
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Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) wrote :

Will tackle this at the same time as bug 323283

Changed in launchpad-foundations:
importance: Low → Medium
milestone: 2.2.2 → 2.2.3
Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)
Changed in launchpad-foundations:
milestone: 2.2.3 → 2.2.4
Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)
Changed in launchpad-foundations:
milestone: 2.2.4 → 2.2.5
Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)
Changed in launchpad-foundations:
milestone: 2.2.5 → 2.2.6
Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)
Changed in launchpad-foundations:
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) wrote :

I've simplified the text on the +editpgpkeys page and added pop-up help to offer further info on PGP keys.

Changed in launchpad-foundations:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) wrote :

Fix commited in RF 8605

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Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) wrote :

I've rewritten the UI text and added two help pop-ups.

Changed in launchpad-foundations:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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