On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 02:25:37PM +0700, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Tue 2018-10-30 11:46:35 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> > 5. backport the required GnuPG patchset from stretch to jessie
> fwiw, i don't see how this is going to work, since jessie has only gpg
> 1.4.18 and 2.0.26 -- modern enigmail requires gnupg 2.0.14 at least, so
> that rules out the 1.4 series. And the 2.0 branch has been EOLed and
> unsupported upstream for nearly a year, and represents a significantly
> different codebase than the 2.1/2.2 series.
>
> Or if you are talking about backporting 2.1.x or 2.2.x, that might be a
> different situation; but just backporting the gnupg patches from stretch
> to jessie sounds pretty tough. (i haven't tried though)
so I'd say this leaves us with two options: a.) getting gnupg 2.1 into
jessie or b.) declaring thunderbird/enigmail unsupported in jessie.
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cheers,
Holger
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