list option show-unusable-uids has no effect on show-only-fpr-mbox output

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hello Uwe,

using gnupg 2.2.40-1.1 on Debian GNU/Linux
I can confirm the behaviour you are seeing.

rm -r ~/tmp/dot.gnupg/
GNUPGHOME=~/tmp/dot.gnupg/ bash
gpg --locate-external-keys \
 mkorpershoek at baylibre.com u.kleine-koenig at baylibre.com

gpg --list-options show-unusable-uids--list-keys
gpg --list-options \
 show-unusable-uids,show-only-fpr-mbox --list-keys

interesting enough adding --with-colons does show both pubkeys.

Am Dienstag 15 April 2025 16:17:44 schrieb Uwe Kleine-König:
> To generate the WKD content, I'm using
>
> 	test at taurus:~$ gpg --list-options show-only-fpr-mbox,show-unusable-uids
> --list-keys 0D2511F322BFAB1C1580266BE2DCDD9132669BD6
> u.kleine-koenig at baylibre.com
>
> (and pipe that into `gpg-wks-client -C $docroot --install-key`).

Because you are using it in a script, --with-colons is usually recommended to 
keep the interface more stable. That does not easily output the email 
address.

> Here the list-option `show-unusable-uids` doesn't have the desired
> effect and no line is generated for Mattijs's key and email address.

I wonder if this is a defect at all as the documentation says:
   
https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/GPG-Configuration-Options.html#index-list_002doptions_003ashow_002donly_002dfpr_002dmbox

| For each user-id which has a valid mail address print
| only the fingerprint followed by the mail address.  

As the user-id is revoked, 
it somehow is not a _valid_ email address, isn't it?

> With `show-unusable-uids` in the list-options I would have expected that
> had this effect on the fpr-mbox listing in the same way as on the
> default format.

I also wonder:
What sense would it make to put a pubkey for an invalid uid on the WKD?

However either the documentation or the behaviour could be improved somehow I 
guess. 

> I'm using gpg as provided in Debian unstable (version: 2.4.7-14).

Thanks for taking the time to writeup your report!
This how GnuPG gets better!

Best Regards,
Bernhard



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