Ian Jackson writes ("Re: False assumptions about nPth (was: Bug#841143:
Suspected race in gpg1 to gpg2 conversion or agent startup [and 1 more
messages]) [and 1 more messages]"):
> I think that at least my patch
> [PATCH 4/4] gpg agent lockup fix: Interrupt main loop when
> active_connections_value==0
> is very likely a fix to an actual race.
...
> At the very least empirically that patch reduces the failure
> probability of a run of the complete dgit test suite on my laptop from
> about 100% (I guess that represents a failure probability of 0.1% per
> gnupg run) to about 5-10%.
...
> Do you intend to rework my patch(es) and apply the ones that make
> sense ? Do you intend to fix the remaining bug ?
...
> PS: npth is also not bug-free. For example, see #850686, just
> reported.
I see that gnupg2 2.1.17-4 was uploaded by Daniel on the 11th of
January. You have not applied my patch 4/4 which as I say I still
think fixes a real bug.
Please confirm your intentions. I would like this bug fixed in
stretch.
Ian.
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