[Enigmail] Enigmail asks 2 times for passphrase

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Wed Jan 7 20:07:12 PST 2009


Faramir wrote:
>   But... supposedly, the patches makes it change it's version number...
> or I am wrong about that?

You're wrong about that.

GnuPG is in a state of constant revision.  Fixes are checked in on a
daily basis.  Every few months, they package up a snapshot of the
current trusted codebase and say "GnuPG 1.4.10 has been released" (to
pick the next version in the 1.4 branch).

But the entire process and each and every change to the code are well
documented.  So if there's a security fix in 1.4.7 that resolves a
problem in 1.4.6, you can make a fixed version of 1.4.6 very easily:
take the 1.4.6 code and apply the security fix.

That's what Ubuntu does.




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