Hi Leonardo, thanks for your bug report!
On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 04:57:13PM -0600, Leonardo Arias Fonseca wrote:
> I want to sign my debian package with sequoia, so I tried with gpg-sq and got
> the error "Unusable secret key".
>
> ```
> golang-github-offchainlabs-go-bitfield import/git20250408.ad7364d
> ❯ debsign -k 814701B018F2684D4234E927C279C6A1E423C96C -p gpg-sq
> signfile dsc
> ../golang-github-offchainlabs-go-bitfield_0.0~git20250408.ad7364d-2.dsc
> 814701B018F2684D4234E927C279C6A1E423C96C
> gpg: skipped "814701B018F2684D4234E927C279C6A1E423C96C": Unusable secret key
> gpg:
> /tmp/debsign.JSl3QUmL/golang-github-offchainlabs-go-bitfield_0.0~git20250408.ad7364d-2.dsc:
> clear-sign failed: Unusable secret key
> debsign: gpg-sq error occurred! Aborting....
> ```
you might get a better error message with sq directly.
can you please try 'sq sign --cleartext --signer FINGERPRINT' and post the
output?
Also the output of 'sq inspect --cert FINGERPRINT' would be helpful.
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cheers,
Holger
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