GNU bug report logs - #37556
gpg "-unknown" version string

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:01:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 37556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: lekktu <at> gmail.com, 37556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37556: gpg "-unknown" version string
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:17:05 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 07:34:45 +0200
> Cc: 37556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I think it makes more sense just adding "-unknown" to the formats
> > recognized by default with version-regexp-alist.
> 
> Hm...  I guess that would make sense, but might there be other
> ramifications?  All callers to version-to-list may get other data back
> than they are used to?

"-unknown" is unusual in version strings, IME.  If this is somehow
related to gpg, maybe we should chop that before we invoke the
version-comparison functions, in gpg-related Lisp files only?
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