[Bug 1744327] Re: Bionic includes a 16-month-old version of GnuPG (2.1.15 vs 2.2.4)

[Apicultor]

4dro, for now I manually downloaded the debs and manually installed them
in one shot to satisfy all the dependencies, and so far it's worked
perfectly for me:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/353159851/dirmngr_2.2.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/353159837/gnupg_2.2.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/353159827/gnupg-agent_2.2.4-1ubuntu1_all.deb
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/353159829/gnupg-l10n_2.2.4-1ubuntu1_all.deb
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/353159852/gnupg-utils_2.2.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/353159853/gpg-agent_2.2.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/353159856/gpg_2.2.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/353159857/gpgconf_2.2.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/353159858/gpgsm_2.2.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/353159861/gpgv_2.2.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/353159854/gpg-wks-client_2.2.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/353159855/gpg-wks-server_2.2.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/353159862/scdaemon_2.2.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb

There is one final piece of the puzzle which I've filed separately:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg-pkcs11-scd/+bug/1744958

Moltes gràcies, hjd!!

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Title:
  Bionic includes a 16-month-old version of GnuPG (2.1.15 vs 2.2.4)

Status in gnupg2 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  GnuPG 2.1.15 was released in August 2016:
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-08/msg00009.html

  The current version is 2.2.4, released December 2017 and which
  includes important new functionality.

  Can we get this packaged up in time for Bionic's public release?

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