Breaking changes

[Mirimir]

On 05/21/2018 02:57 PM, Mark Rousell wrote:
> On 22/05/2018 02:39, Mark Rousell wrote:
>> Get real. These people are long-time GnuPG users and now you want to
>> throw them under the bus because... well, because you prefer it that
>> way. No, that's not a fair, it's not reasonable, it's not ethical, or
>> it's even professional. [etc etc]
> 
> On re-reading the above message, I apologise if the language I used was
> provocative. However, the points I made are nevertheless valid in my
> opinion.

Hey :)

> Proposing cutting off maintenance of the only maintained route to
> decrypt certain data is provocative, of course. ;-) As I observed, it is
> not necessary to cut off maintained ability to decrypt historical data
> (surely a valid real world use case) in order to prevent users from
> encrypting new data with legacy standards.

So is there anything that gpg v2.2 won't decrypt with the option
"--ignore-mdc-error" specified? Or perhaps, with also other "Doing
things one usually doesn't want to do." options? That is, are older
versions really necessary?