Re: [PATCH] configure: use pkg-config for gpgme

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>]

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Just a nudge on this patch:

any chance we can have it applied in the notmuch tree?

    --dkg

On Fri 2022-11-11 05:16:31 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Wed 2022-11-02 18:02:00 -0300, David Bremner wrote:
>> Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:
>>
>>> GnuPG upstream has supported pkg-config since gpgme version 1.13 and
>>> gpg-error 1.33, and now prefers the use of pkg-config by default,
>>> instead of relying on gpg-error-config and gpgme-config.
>>>
>>> As of libgpg-error 1.46, upstream deliberately does not ship
>>> gpg-error-config by default.  As of gpgme 1.18.0, upstream does not
>>> ship gpgme-config if gpg-error-config is also not present.
>>>
>>> Both of these versions of upstream libraries are in debian unstable
>>> now.  To the extent that notmuch is dependent on GnuPG, it should
>>> follow GnuPG upstream's lead.
>>
>> How is the (debian specific) story for backports?
>
> I believe this patch leaves notmuch still fully backportable across
> all supported debian versions that were already supported.
>
> 0 dkg@alice:~$ rmadison gpgme1.0
> gpgme1.0   | 1.5.1-6         | oldoldoldstable         | source
> gpgme1.0   | 1.8.0-3         | oldoldstable            | source
> gpgme1.0   | 1.12.0-6~bpo9+1 | stretch-backports       | source
> gpgme1.0   | 1.12.0-6~bpo9+1 | stretch-backports-debug | source
> gpgme1.0   | 1.12.0-6        | oldstable               | source
> gpgme1.0   | 1.14.0-1        | stable                  | source
> gpgme1.0   | 1.18.0-1        | testing                 | source
> gpgme1.0   | 1.18.0-2        | unstable                | source
> gpgme1.0   | 1.18.0-2        | unstable-debug          | source
> 0 dkg@alice:~$
>
> backporting to stable should use pkg-config, since the version there is
> after 1.13.  for older than stable, the functionality will still fall
> back to using legacy gpgme-config.
>
>      --dkg
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