GnuPG 2.2 on elder Debian & Ubuntu distros

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Fri 2019-02-01 15:42:01 +0100, Peter Lebbing wrote:
> On 01/02/2019 13:29, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
>
>> Still missing Jessie and Ubuntu 
>
> I don't know about Ubuntu, but it can't go into jessie-backports because
> backports can't go ahead of what the /next/ stable version has.
>
> (That obviously doesn't mean somebody couldn't provide packages for
> jessie, just that it won't go into the official jessie-backports).

please see this depressing thread on the debian-lts mailing list about
the unlikelihood of getting gnupg itself fixed in jessie:

 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2019/01/msg00050.html

 --dkg