reopen 225888 thanks > I'm going to close your report. Upstream has clearly rejected your > request.
I'm quite surprise to see this bug closed, which is basicly a documentation fix, after four years of no activity. Notice that my request was (1) to change upstream's FAQ and (2) to complement the README.Debian file. If upstream does not want to change the FAQ you could still provide more information in README.Debian. The text I provided for README.Debian could be improved, but I'm surprised that instead of fixing it it is diregarded. I suggest the following text for README.Debian instead of the one originally provided: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian does not include IDEA ---------------------------- Debian cannot include the IDEA module in the Gnupg package due to patent issues, no Debian packages will be provided by the project including this algorithm due to its world-wide nature (as the patent covers a number of countries, see US patent 5,214,703, EPO patent 0482154). If you need IDEA for decrypting please read the FAQ (item ' How do I include support for RSA and IDEA?'). For more information also please read http://www.gnupg.org/faq/why-not-idea.en.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Since when is information (documentation) useful to end-users something not worth including? Regards Javier
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