Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Fri, 8 Sep 2023 21:57:55 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] XArray for 6.6 |
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On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 10:44, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote: > > I had to update the expiration on my signing key. I don't know if you > pay attention to that, or whether my attempts to get my updated expiration > date into the system were successful.
I'm sadly much too used (resigned?) to pgp keys being expired, so I mostly ignore it, apart from the occasional internal swearing at people who thought it was ever a good idea.
So exactly because the pgp key server infrastructure works so badly these days, may I suggest either getting rid of expiration dates, or at least putting them *far* in the future?
Honestly, the argument for expiration dates was never very strong, and with how badly updates work, the constant low-grade annoyance from them isn't worth it.
Because no, a "gpg --refresh" certainly did *not* get any expiration day updates here. So your key does indeed show that it is expired for me.
Which just should drive home how #$!* useless those expiration dates are. Really.
So again - please stop expiring your keys, at least in any foreseeable near future. The pgp key infrastructure isn't set up for it.
Make the expiration date go away, or make it a decade or two in the future, and maybe it will show as active and valid some day.
Linus
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