[pkg-gnupg-maint] gnupg.fail status

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2025-12-30 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> 2.4.9 was also released by upstream today.  I am game to package that
> for unstable and try to synchronize it with the work that Andreas has
> done in experimental.

Hello Daniel,

Thanks, I would appreciate if you could take care of 2.4.9.

> as for stable, i think a security release that could be swept into the
> next point release would be a good idea.  I can try to do some of that
> backporting as well.

> For oldstable, which still has the 2.2 series, it seems possible that we
> would want to consider upstream's actual support for 2.2.x.

> Despite the claimed EOL at the end of 2024, it now looks like upstream
> will support 2.2.x indefinitely; indeed, they're releasing stable fixes
> for the 2.2 branch more frequently than they do for the 2.4 branch.  At
> this point, I feel like it was probably a mistake to move debian stable
> to 2.4.  I'm sorry i made that call at the time.
[...]

I had the same doubts yesterday (not that you guessed wrong, but that
I did). Well, it was the correct decision given the information we had
then.
cu Andreas
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