Note on the provided Debian packages
Note on the provided Debian packages
Posted Jan 27, 2026 19:02 UTC (Tue) by gwolf (subscriber, #14632)Parent article: A critical GnuPG security update
The GnuPG announcement has a section on “Debian Packages”. Please note that GnuPG is packaged _in_ Debian, but the Debian maintainers have chosen not to package the 2.5 branch of GnuPG. If you download the package following the instructions this announcement includes, you will switch away from a standards-abiding OpenPGP implementation to one that will surely cause interoperability problems, due to the GnuPG author's decision to steer away from the OpenPGP standard and fork into what they call “LibrePGP”.
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