Re: gnupg-2.2.42-r2 [Was: Emacs master: Some tests are hanging.]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:38:40 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> Right after posting the original post, I tried going back to the
> previous version of gnupg, namely gnupg-2.2.41.  All tests then worked
> on master, with no hangs.
> 
> The version which doesn't work well together with Emacs is
> gnupg-2.2.42-r2.  (I've a feeling that the "-r2" there is a purely
> Gentoo label).
> 
> So it seems that some interface to gnupg has changed, possibly
> unintentionally.
> 
> I don't know this part of Emacs at all well, that is gnupg and
> sub-processes, so would anybody help me on sorting out what's going
> wrong, here?  Thanks!

There are known problems with that version of GPG.  We are told that
the latest version 2.4.x solved those problems, so maybe try upgrading
to that.