Subject: bug#36725: 26.1; Emacs can't connect to gnu elpa

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 08:02:54 -0400

Robert Pluim <[email-masked]> writes:

>     Noam> Does (setq gnutls-algorithm-priority "NORMAL:-VERS-TLS1.3") help?  If
>     Noam> yes, this is likely Bug#34341 (should already be fixed already in
>     Noam> emacs-26, and the 26.2.90 pretest).
>
> elpa.gnu.org uses TLS1.2, not TLS1.3. But emacs-27 has a bunch of
> changes in its TLS handling that might improve matters.

Hmm, it does.  On the other hand, Lennard told me [Lennard, please use
"Reply All" next time so your response goes to the bug list] that (setq
gnutls-algorithm-priority "NORMAL:-VERS-TLS1.3") did actually help.

Tim, can you check the gnutls-algorithm-priority workaround too?