packaged gpg 2.1.x can't retrieve any keys from keyservers.. is there any upstream fix or progress?

[lists at ssl-mail.com]

just fyi

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016, at 08:11 PM, lists at ssl-mail.com wrote:
> > and i don't know what
> > version of 2.1.x you're talking about (though you mention 2.1.15 below).
> > can you be more specific?

upgraded to

gpg2 --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.16
libgcrypt 1.7.3
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: /root/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
        CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

and the problem persists as reported