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

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 18:53, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:

> I wouldn't want to encourage people to restart the daemons -- i'd rather
> encourage them to terminate them and let the new versions be restarted

Right.


>     gpg: WARNING: server 'dirmngr' is older than us (2.1.17 < 2.1.18). Run 'gpgconf --kill dirmngr' to terminate it.  A new instance will be restarted as needed.

We already have some hints messages printed in --verbose mode, like:

  gpg: further info: Tor is not properly configured

So I would suggest to print

  gpg: further info: A restart can be forced using "gpgconf --kill all"

> Alternately, it might be nice for gpg to try to effect the restart
> itself (though i worry that could get into a loop, since gpg itself is

Not a good idea in case you have other sessions running or you need the
cache.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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