libgcrypt20

[orangeprince at hushmail.com]

Hello!

Super helpful, thanks man!

OP

On 2. februar 2015 at 3:40 PM, "Daniel Kahn Gillmor" <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
>
>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