From: Santiago Torres <santiago@nyu.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:35:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t/lib-gpg: fix gpgconf stderr redirect to /dev/null
Message-ID: <20171114153517.3z3ndsvqhekijuad@LykOS.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20171114031026.GT5144@zaya.teonanacatl.net>

> If it's a small range of gnupg versions which fail badly when the GNUPGHOME
> dir is removed, then there's far less reason for git to do much more than
> make an effort to kill the agent.
> 

Yeah. FWIW, it may be reasonable to consider dropping the patch once we are
certain distros don't ship this range anymore.

> It seems like all the gnupg versions which may suffer from the bug also
> support gpgconf --kill, which would make any further change in the test to
> handle versions which lack the --kill option moot.
> 

This is also true. We should definitely not litter the stdout with ENOENT-like
error messages though...

Thanks again for catching this!
-Santiago.