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

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Thu 2015-05-28 02:45:24 -0400, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
> On 05/28/2015 02:26 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> I agree, this is important for jessie as well.  I've just opened #787045
>> (gnupg2) and #787046 (gnupg) to keep track of these bugs.
>
> Thank you for opening the bug in Debian BTS.
>
> Another compatibility issue with ECC was reported to gnupg-users,
> and this is my post (the context is Ubuntu with GnuPG 2.0.22):
>
>     https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2015-May/053685.html
>
> The situation is a bit complicated.  It depends on libgcrypt.  In
> GnuPG 2.0.23, it introduced compatibility work around to disables ECC
> (even when libgcrypt supports ECC).
>
> I think that squeeze-lts doesn't have this problem since libgcrypt in
> sqeeze-lts doesn't have ECC feature.   wheezy-backports doesn't have
> this problem because its GnuPG is 2.0.25.
>
> wheezy has this particular issue because it's libgcrypt is new and
> GnuPG is old.

Thanks for the heads-up.  I've just opened this as
https://bugs.debian.org/787139.

     --dkg