Unable to issue subkey revocation

[Andrew Gallagher]

On 25/05/2026 12:03, marqueandreprisal--- via Gnupg-users wrote:
> I didn't notice a signing subkey in the screenshot it appeared to me the 
> primary key is revoked while the E subkey was not.

Well, the first key is listed under "subkeys" so if it's actually the 
primary key then there's a bug in openkeychain, because the primary key 
is not a subkey.

> Again however in gpg2 
> it reportes the E revoked maybe based only in the assumption that if the 
> primary is revoked so are the subkeys, it seems to be a bug in gpg2.

Or it could be a bug in openkeychain. Given that it already seems to 
think that the primary key is a subkey, it may be that something 
internally has recorded that "the first subkey is revoked" and there's a 
mismatch internally so it gets displayed wrong.
> As far as the export revocation command it is not clear why you want me 
> to send it to you here.

Because I can tell by looking at it which (sub)key is really revoked - 
and it seems more likely to me that it is gpg that is correct.

> In the hours wasted with AI trying to figure 
> this out as I stated in the opening I did try to implicitly revoke the 
> subkey by using the subkey ID to issue revocation and when doing so gpg2 
> would report "no change".

If you had already revoked it, and tried to revoke it again, then this 
would be expected.

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