On Tue, 2018-11-20 at 10:28 -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> On 2018-11-20 15:19:45, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2018-11-19 at 15:48 -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
[...]
> > > I think this is overengineered. I still haven't heard exactly what the
> > > problem would be with upgrading those libraries. They are present in
> > > jessie-backports and presumably well tested.
> > [...]
> > 
> > Those updated library packages are installed and used by people that
> > specifically choose to use GnuPG 2.1 in jessie.  I don't think we can
> > assume they are well-tested in conjunction with GnuPG 1.4.
> 
> My understanding is that GnuPG 1.4 does not use those libraries at all,
> and from what I can tell, gpg 1.4 does not link against them either.

Oh!  I don't know why I thought it did.  Then this does seem like a
reasonable approach.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Time is nature's way of making sure that
everything doesn't happen at once.


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