[Enigmail] Enigmail asks 2 times for passphrase

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 20:30:26 PST 2009


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Robert J. Hansen escribió:
> Faramir wrote:
>>   But... supposedly, the patches makes it change it's version number...
>> or I am wrong about that?
> 
> You're wrong about that.

  Thanks for the clarification...

> GnuPG is in a state of constant revision.  Fixes are checked in on a
...

> But the entire process and each and every change to the code are well
> documented.  So if there's a security fix in 1.4.7 that resolves a
> problem in 1.4.6, you can make a fixed version of 1.4.6 very easily:
> take the 1.4.6 code and apply the security fix.
> 
> That's what Ubuntu does.

  But... if the are distributing the fixed version, shouldn't they mark
them as fixed, somehow? Like marking it as 1.4.6.1 or something? I mean,
if I check the version, I don't have any way to know if I am using the
"good one" or the "unpatched one"... Or maybe there is a way to know it,
but it's not easy to check...

  Best Regards
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