Re: Keysigning Party at DebConf19 (list available tomorrow morning)

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On 19/07/2019 23:46, Pablo Mestre wrote:
> Finally... .
> 
> The solution was upgrade gnupg  using the buster repository. I dont need
> to upgrade all the system, only around 16 packages.....

$ rmadison gnupg
gnupg      | 1.4.18-7+deb8u5 | oldoldstable      | source, amd64, armel,
armhf, i386
gnupg      | 2.1.18-8~deb9u4 | oldstable         | amd64, arm64, armel,
armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
gnupg      | 2.2.12-1~bpo9+1 | stretch-backports | all
gnupg      | 2.2.12-1        | stable            | all
gnupg      | 2.2.13-2        | testing           | all
gnupg      | 2.2.17-3        | unstable          | all

Why Adding buster repository may work but is potentially quite harmful
(another hint for those who do it: use apt_preferences to lower its
priority so packages won't be accidentally installed from there).

But in this case you already have the package in backports, right? Why
not install from there instead in such a case? See
https://backports.debian.org/

(rmadison is part of the package devscripts)

-- Tzafrir