On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 11:08:10AM +0200, ilf wrote: > Derek Martin: > >Ubuntu LTS has: > >libgpgme11/xenial,now 1.6.0-1 amd64 [installed] > > GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy (library) libgpgme11-dev/xenial 1.6.0-1 > >amd64 GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy (development files) > > That's Ubuntu xenial (16.04 LTS). There is a new LTS version bionic > (18.04 LTS), which ships with 1.10.0.
Sorry I wasn't clear: The point is, 16.04 is EOL April 2024. 14.04 is EOL in 2022. So... it's perfectly reasonable for people to be running those versions, and whatever GPGME is on them. > Also, your mail had the header "User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 > (2010-09-15)", What I, or any one person, is running is irrelevant to the discussion of whether Mutt should support what version of some dependency for its entire user community. Mutt does not run only on the latest Linux distributions. Often it is not running on Linux at all. Mutt has a long history of supporting "outdated" versions of dependencies, due to the fact that it is meant to run on as wide a selection of Unix workalike systems as possible, and many of those systems have outdated versions of things, beyond their users' control. FWIW, the system where Mutt is running when I mail you this response is not the same system on which I am typing the message. The versions of the OS and the versions of Mutt involved have absolutely nothing to do with each other. This is also not uncommon. > If Mutt changes the minimum GPGME requirement, you won't have > problems if you use both Mutt and GPGME from a distribution. Only if > you build a modern mutt with an antiqated GPGME - in which case, you > can also build a modern GPGME. It's fairly common practice to build Mutt from source, so that you can get what you want. It's not common practice to build your own GPGME. I suspect that, like me, no shits are given by most users what version of GPGME they're using, as long as Mutt builds and runs properly. Also you may be unaware that in some distributions, the mutt package is not Mutt at all, but rather mutt-ng. If you want to actually run Mutt, you MUST NOT run your distro's package, in those cases. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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