[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#860745: Please suggest a fix for "server $SOMETHING is older than us" message

[Enrico Zini]

Package: gnupg
Version: 2.1.18-6
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

I get some warnings when I run some gpg commands:

gpg: WARNING: server 'dirmngr' is older than us (2.1.17 < 2.1.18)
gpg: WARNING: server 'gpg-agent' is older than us (2.1.17 < 2.1.18)

I'd like to restart those services, but I have no idea of how. I tried search
engines, and had little luck. I assume and hope there is a way to do that
without restarting my X session.

Looking up documentation I had little luck:

  $ dirmngr --help|grep -i restart
  $ gpg-agent --help|grep -i restart
  $ man dirmngr|grep -i restart
  $ man gpg-agent|grep -i restart
  $

At the moment, that "is older than us" message is giving me more worries than
help.

Could it be changed into something like this?

gpg: WARNING: server 'dirmngr' is older than us (2.1.17 < 2.1.18). Run $COMMAND to restart it.


Enrico

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnupg depends on:
ii  gnupg-agent    2.1.18-6
ii  libassuan0     2.4.3-2
ii  libbz2-1.0     1.0.6-8.1
ii  libc6          2.24-9
ii  libgcrypt20    1.7.6-1
ii  libgpg-error0  1.26-2
ii  libksba8       1.3.5-2
ii  libreadline7   7.0-2
ii  libsqlite3-0   3.16.2-3
ii  zlib1g         1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages gnupg recommends:
ii  dirmngr     2.1.18-6
ii  gnupg-l10n  2.1.18-6

Versions of packages gnupg suggests:
pn  parcimonie  <none>
pn  xloadimage  <none>

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