[Enigmail] Different gpg2 versions in gpg2 --version and when signing with TB+EM - Linux Ubuntu 8.10_64bits

[Charly Avital]

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Hi,

I have compiled and installed gpg2.0.10rc1 under Linux Ubuntu 8.10_64bits.

I am running it with Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 + Enigmail  0.95.7 (20081209).

In Terminal:
$ gpg2 --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.10rc1
libgcrypt 1.4.3
NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION!
It is only intended for test purposes and should NOT be
used in a production environment or with production keys!
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB

But when I sign a message, the PGP footer shows version 2.0.9 (as you
can see in this message).

I have queried Werner Koch, his answer is:
> Enigmail seems to use another version of gpg2.  It is not possible that
> a different version number is printed in Comment: than with --version.
> I just checked; we use the very same macro.

In OpenPGP/Preferences the path is: /usr/local/bin/gpg2

And in Terminal:
~$ which gpg2
/usr/local/bin/gpg2

In ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf I have enabled the option
emit-version

After commenting (disabling) that option, quit and relaunch TB, there is
no change, the printed version in comment remains gpg 2.0.9.
IIRC from posts in this list, Enigmail has its own set of options, and
does not, per force or at all, read gpg.conf.

I have searched in TB's Preferences/Advanced/Config Editor... for some
setting that I could modify. I didn't find anything appropriate, but
that does not mean there isn't such an editable setting. I don't know
enough about those settings to choose the correct one, if it is there
somewhere.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Charly
Ubuntu 8.10_64bits (under virtual ware in MacOSX 10.5.6).


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