[RFC PATCH] enable configurable SECMEM_BUFFER_SIZE

[Shah, Amul]

>thanks for your persistence on this, i'm glad to see new ideas and approaches
>are being tried out.  You're not the only person who has run into concurrency
>problems with gpg-agent.

[amul:4] Thanks for the kind words.

>On Fri 2017-11-24 10:30:48 +0000, Shah, Amul wrote:
>> [amul:3] DKG, What does one need to do to back-port these changes to stable?
>> File a bug, attach patches that apply cleanly to the target sources
>> and request the maintainer to add them?
>
>Are you asking about debian stable, or the GnuPG stable branch?  Since you're
>asking me specifically, i assume you're asking about debian stable (aka
>"stretch").  please ignore the rest of this if that isn't what you meant ;)

[amul:4] Ack! I did mean Debian stable.

>At first glance, it looks like it would require patches to libgcrypt itself,
>in addition to patches to GnuPG.
>
>That would be something to coordinate for a point release perhaps, but it
>could be complicated; there are several other bugfix improvements that it
>would also be good to include into debian stable.

[amul:4] If I understood Werner's last mail, Debian stable should update to
libgcrypt 1.8.1 and then back port his changes to GnuPG 2.1.


>To make this stand out clearly, you probably want to start by opening a bug
>report (in the debian BTS) against the gcrypt package, tagged appropriately
>for the affected versions, explaining the problem, pointing to the upstream
>reports and commits, and also mark it so that it "affects" the gnupg2 source
>package.

[amul:4] I created #882985 for this issue. I ran reportbug from my Debian
"unstable" server, and since this is my first time through the utility, I'm
sure that I made more than one mistake.

[amul:4] I'm not sure if I set the "affects" gnupg2 correctly.

Amul
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