On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 10:50:39AM +0200, Simon Josefsson via Gnupg-users wrote: > Are there well-maintained debian packages for GnuPG 2.4 anywhere? I > recently ran into yet another bug that has been fixed in later versions > that Debian/Trisquel doesn't ship, so wondered this recently as well. > > I've seen some work here: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1022702#10 > > If nobody has done this, is there interest in providing such packages?
I was wondering about this a while ago. A PPA or similar external repo would be very convenient if the Debian situation can't be sorted out, since there are several post-2.2 features I'd like to use. I'm not a party to the ongoing standardization efforts and can't speak about the technical merits of the proposals, but from a user perspective, Debian seems to be in the wrong here: if putatively not fully following standards were a general reason for not providing updates to a package, there would be very few packages left in Debian. IMO the maintainer should provide updated packages with a default configuration that keeps to "safe" (same as 2.2?) data formats if they think the newer formats will be a problem in the future—not hold back the entire package. -Valtteri
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