[pkg-gnupg-maint] stretch-pu: package gnupg2/2.1.18-8~deb9u3

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Sun Oct 14 23:58:33 BST 2018


Hi release team, security team:

over in #910398, i wrote:

On Fri 2018-10-05 17:48:10 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> I'd like to update the version of GnuPG in debian stable with a series
> of targeted bugfixes (most of which are backported from upstream).
>
> There are four complementary reasons, which i explain in more detail
> below:
>
>  * ptrace hardening for scdaemon
>  * bugfixes that target some common workflows
>  * updating cryptographic defaults
>  * fixing enigmail in stretch
>
> All of the patches that implement these changes have been in buster
> for many months (either as upstream improvements or debian-specific
> improvements).

I'd appreciate some followup on this from the debian teams -- am i
barking up the wrong tree?  should i take a different approach?  or do i
(and the stretch users of enigmail) just need to wait a little while
longer for review?

Many thanks for your work in keeping debian stable safe, healthy, and
useful.

Regards,

        --dkg

PS thanks to Georg for his testing of these changes, as noted in
#910398!
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