Re: [PATCH 2/2] test: use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available

Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] test: use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available

Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:59:31 -0500

To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:

> I'd love to not see this kind of workaround cruft pile up, because it
> tends to cause problems in the future.  is there a way that we can mark
> this sort of thing for fairly prompt removal once it's fixed upstream?

Maybe once a gnupg bug is filed, write to this list with the suggestion
that we back out the workaround when the bug is fixed upstream
(although we have to think about how long to support gnupg
2.1.18. Thanks debian!). We can then tag that message as a bug in
nmbug.

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