Re: new testsuite errors with gcrypt 1.5 and gnutls 2.17.1

[Tomas Mraz]

On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 12:39 +0200, Werner Koch wrote: 
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:41, address@hidden said:
> 
> > Hmm... wouldn't it be more proper to make the default MPI format for
> > gcry_sexp_nth_mpi USG? Given the libgcrypt-1.4.x always behaved like
> > this this is strictly said API/ABI break, regardless of what
> > documentation says.
> 
> No, it didn't behaved like this.  The case with the leading zeroes is
> more complex that just the GCRMPI_FMT_STD default.  It was a bug in
> GnuPG to use the default.  Fortunately most users of Libgcrypt didn't
> copied that bug.

I understand that, but what would be broken (that was not broken already
in libgcrypt-1.4.x) if the GCRY_MPI_FMT_USG was declared as default for
gcry_sexp_nth_mpi() ? Is there currently any known use in existing
software that expects the GCRY_MPI_FMT_STD if 0 is specified as format
in gcry_sexp_nth_mpi()?

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Tomas Mraz
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