Thank you. I guess I was confused by its only failing on Emacs 25.3 and
not 24.5 (but only because the workaround is already applied in Debian
archive, I guess) or 26.3. Should have searched more.

Paul

On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 at 21:05, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 at 10:48, Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Also get this error if I apply the workaround suggested in that bugreport.
> So, the workaround doesn't help here.

It is helping, but now you are encountering Bug#35534. See also
https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/gnu-elpa-keyring-update.html