[PATCH] only document --faked-system-time for gpg 2.1 and later

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Fri Aug 4 18:24:25 CEST 2017


On Thu 2017-08-03 17:46:43 +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed,  2 Aug 2017 08:44, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:
>
>> it's been a few years :) Is this patch to fix documentation of
>> faked-system-time something that we don't want applied for some reason,
>
> I can't remember that.  Do we have a bug number for this?

we do now:  https://dev.gnupg.org/T3329

> Documentation fixes are of course still welcome for 2.2.

i would hope that documentation fixes are still welcome on any
maintained branch.

> Note that --faked-system-time is mostly a debug option and should not
> be consider part of the stable API.  In fact it may trigger certain
> bugs which are not easy to fix.

How is the user supposed to know this?

    --dkg



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