Find remote keys function is completely broken

Bug #925474 reported by Marc Deslauriers
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This bug affects 8 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
seahorse
Fix Released
High
seahorse (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Robert Ancell
Oneiric
Won't Fix
Medium
Unassigned
Precise
Fix Released
Medium
Robert Ancell

Bug Description

The "Find remote keys" functionnality in seahorse is completely broken, rendering it difficult or impossible to add GPG keys into your keyring.

Steps to reproduce:

1- Open Seahorse
2- Select Remote/Find remote keys
3- Type "<email address hidden>", click search
4- Notice the window shows up empty. Close window.
5- Select Remote/Find remote keys
6- Type "a744be93", click search
7- Notice window finds keys, but the names are missing. (See attached screenshot)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: seahorse 3.2.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.21-generic 3.2.2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 2 08:39:20 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110302)
SourcePackage: seahorse
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-03 (29 days ago)

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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :
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Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote :

Confirmed for precise, both with and without the Ubuntu patches. I reported it upstream at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669247

Changed in seahorse (Ubuntu Precise):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: rls-p-tracking
Changed in seahorse (Ubuntu Precise):
milestone: none → ubuntu-12.04-beta-1
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop (ubuntu-desktop)
Changed in seahorse (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in seahorse:
importance: Unknown → High
status: Unknown → New
Changed in seahorse (Ubuntu Precise):
assignee: Ubuntu Desktop (ubuntu-desktop) → Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team)
Changed in seahorse:
status: New → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The issue is fixed upstream, there is no trivial commit though, upstream pointed the unstable serie refactoring as fixing it, not sure that can apply to precise...

Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in seahorse (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-12.04-beta-1 → ubuntu-12.04-beta-2
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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

Broke somewhere between 3.1.4 and 3.1.91, probably by this:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/seahorse/commit/?id=c7e0a9535dd0416f7bcfd753667095020771964f

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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

That's also a big commit to dig through for a fix... How about we just remove that menu option until Q when we will have seahorse 3.4?

Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in seahorse (Ubuntu Precise):
milestone: ubuntu-12.04-beta-2 → ubuntu-12.04
Changed in seahorse (Ubuntu Precise):
assignee: Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

In debugging this I also noticed selecting only specific servers to search for is also broken (bug 978600)

Changed in seahorse (Ubuntu Precise):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package seahorse - 3.2.2-0ubuntu2

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seahorse (3.2.2-0ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/02_broken_search_filter.patch:
    - Fix broken search filter (LP: #978600)
  * debian/patches/03_broken_search.patch:
    - Fix broken search (LP: #925474)
  * debian/patches/99_ltmain_as-needed.patch:
    - Dropped as it conflicts with dh-autoreconf.
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:06:48 +1000

Changed in seahorse (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

Oneiric has been dead a while. RIP.

Changed in seahorse (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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