libgcrypt20

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Mon 2015-02-02 07:32:19 -0500, orangeprince at hushmail.com wrote:

> Any chance libgcrypt20 could make it into the main packages repository
> or whatever it's called? My admin refuses to install from backports
> and I desperately need libgcrypt 1.2 or higher.

libgcrypt 1.2 is quite old, and hasn't been supported in debian for
ages.

It's not clear what you want here; libgcrypt 1.4.5 is in debian squeeze
("oldstable"), and 1.5.0 is in wheezy ("stable").  These are all known
as libgcrypt11 (based on the SONAME version number)

the upcoming (but not yet released) version jessie is currently
"testing", and will have 1.6.2, which will be known as libgcrypt20.

The stable versions of debian are not going to have a newer version of a
core library like gcrypt added to them.  They will receive security
updates, but that's it.

hope this information is useful,

           --dkg