bug#37556: gpg "-unknown" version string

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:

> This commit
>
>    commit 42ba6200af10c00c72ac13912d6fb42a7af88058
>    Author: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>    Date:   2019-08-26 08:02:31 +0200
>
>        Allow finding gpg2 binaries when gpg2 has an "unknown" version string
>
>        * lisp/epg-config.el (epg-find-configuration): Allow finding a
>        usable configuration even if the version string looks like "gpg
>        (GnuPG) 2.2.15-unknown" (bug#35629).
>
> fixes one function, but there are other uses of version-related
> functions in epg, for example

I've now reverted this patch, and pushed the more general
version-regexp-alist patch.  I rated -unknown as -alpha -- there was
some discussion about whether that's best, but no conclusion was
reached, really.  It can be tweaked later if that's problematic.

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