[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#1105820: Bug#1105820: Bug#1105820: Bug#1105820: Bug#1105820: Bug#1105820: Gnupg-in-debian considers comment packets invalid

Sune Stolborg Vuorela sune at debian.org
Tue May 27 09:40:29 BST 2025


On Saturday, May 17, 2025 12:25:31 AM CEST Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> > And these private packets are fully compliant. It is in the spec after
> > all.
> 
> What is in the spec?  Public key packets are *also* in the spec, but
> they don't belong in a detached signature, which is what is described
> here.  Nothing in any OpenPGP specification i've ever read suggests that
> arbitrary packets can be included in any position in a detached
> signature. 

Now that sequoia also thinks that having non-critical packets anywhere, can we 
also let GnuPG do it, right ?  right ?

https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia/-/issues/1193#note_2522532582

/Sune
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