Index: pygpgme-0.1+bzr20090820/src/pygpgme-context.c
===================================================================
--- pygpgme-0.1+bzr20090820.orig/src/pygpgme-context.c	2009-10-14 19:57:00.000000000 +0000
+++ pygpgme-0.1+bzr20090820/src/pygpgme-context.c	2009-10-14 19:57:21.000000000 +0000
@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@
         return -1;
     }
 
+    gpgme_check_version(NULL);
+
     if (pygpgme_check_error(gpgme_new(&self->ctx)))
         return -1;
 
