[pkg-gnupg-maint] compatibility change which is worth to be included

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Sun 2015-05-24 20:54:51 -0400, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:

> My OpenPGP key in keyserver(s) have a subkey of ECC, and it caused a
> trouble in Debian keyring.  I think that each time it got my key from
> some keyserver for update, the subkey was added every time, although it
> was already there.
>
> It was fixed in the upstream for 1.4, 2.0 (and 2.1).
>
> Fix in GnuPG 1.4:
>
>     http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=commit;h=04667cabef2d6aaa214b288482bb902c891893a5
>
> Fix in GnuPG 2.0:
>
>     http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=commit;h=43429c7869152f301157e4b24790b3801dce0f0a
>
> If 2.1 will be more popular and people will start to use ECC, it will
> be good for gnupg package (1.4 series) in Debian to have this fix.
> Perhaps, even for Jessie.

I agree, this is important for jessie as well.  I've just opened #787045
(gnupg2) and #787046 (gnupg) to keep track of these bugs.

         --dkg