"New" packet headers and gpg

[David Shaw]

On Jan 4, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Stephen Paul Weber <singpolyma at singpolyma.net> wrote:

> Somebody claiming to be David Shaw wrote:
>> On Jan 3, 2013, at 9:53 PM, Stephen Paul Weber <singpolyma at singpolyma.net> wrote:
>>> tell gpg or gpg2 to produce "new" packet length headers for output?  
>> 
>> No.  GPG automatically uses the old packet headers for those packets that can be described that way
> 
> Hmm, ok.  I was hoping that with all the "advanced mode, you probably don't care about this" features, there would be one for this.

You could patch the code (look in build-packet.c) fairly easily if you need this.  Out of curiosity, why do you want to use only new packet headers?

David