[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#787046: Bug#787046: Bug#787046: [PATCH] Fix issue with unknown subkey types in stable

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Tue 2015-10-27 14:52:08 -0400, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 07:15:50PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
>> Attached is a patch against gnupg 1.4.18-7 from jessie which fixes the
>> issue with unknown subkey types being repeatedly added to keys. This is
>> just pulling the patch from the testing/unstable version of the package.
>> Testing is easy; something like:
>
> ping? This bug is becoming a major PITA to me with my keyring-maint hat
> on, as keyring.debian.org keeps receiving key updates I have to ignore
> because they add ECC subkeys.

I agree that the patch you've supplied is reasonable.  I've opened
#803199 to track this request within jessie, as suggested in the
developers reference:

 https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable

I have created a new "jessie" branch on the pkg-gnupg gnupg git
repository, and pushed it in there.  if we get good feedback from the
release team, i'll go ahead and upload it.

thanks for the nudge, Jonathan.

       --dkg