dirmngr: Avoid automatically checking upstream swdb.

[gnupg2.git] / doc / dirmngr.texi

diff --git a/doc/dirmngr.texi b/doc/dirmngr.texi
index e27157c007e7db6d2a81e66496cb994898e12799..dd104273d8a8884960592c5f2ee24e8dcc497f66 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/dirmngr.texi
+++ b/doc/dirmngr.texi
@@ -266,12 +266,11 @@ seconds.
 @item --allow-version-check
 @opindex allow-version-check
 Allow Dirmngr to connect to @code{https://versions.gnupg.org} to get
-the list of current software versions.  If this option is enabled, or
-if @option{use-tor} is active, the list is retrieved when the local
-copy does not exist or is older than 5 to 7 days.  See the option
-@option{--query-swdb} of the command @command{gpgconf} for more
-details.  Note, that regardless of this option a version check can
-always be triggered using this command:
+the list of current software versions.  On debian-packaged versions,
+this option does nothing since software updates should be handled by
+the distribution.  See the option @option{--query-swdb} of the command
+@command{gpgconf} for more details.  Note, that regardless of this
+option a version check can always be triggered using this command:
 
 @example
        gpg-connect-agent --dirmngr 'loadswdb --force' /bye