GnuPG - Known Bugs

# The GNU Privacy Guard

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## List of Some Known Bugs

This following list contains those bugs which we are aware of. Please make sure that bugs you report are not listed here.

Entries which are marked with "FIX: yyyy-mm-dd" are fixed in the CVS and after about half a day in the rsync snapshots.

    [  *] #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  0.9.1
        v3 key 'expiration date' problem:
           1. generate a key, set expiration date
           2.
           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  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!

    [  *] #18 1999-05-27  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 gmake as a workaround.

    Next #23
    (List generated from CVS:  1999-09-02 )

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.)

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