Am Sonntag, den 28.02.2010, 23:20 -0500 schrieb Eric Dorland: > * Daniel Leidert (daniel.leid...@wgdd.de) wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 17.12.2009, 20:11 -0500 schrieb nobled: > > > > > There hasn't been much activity on bug #483724 - doesn't it require > > > gnupg 1.x to convert to update-alternatives first? Is that still on > > > the todo list? > > > > The suggestion to use update-alternatives hasn't been forgotten. > > However, there are currently no plans to do this now. The implications > > of this action should be examined first. This will probably happen in > > the near furture, when we also examine how to handle the new gnupg 2.1 > > series. > > Ok, lets discuss it. gnupg and gnupg2 should be largely compatible on > the command-line, so I doubt there would be many problems with things > that depend on the behavior of gpg, but there might be a few.
I don't like those guesses. Either we know it or not. > Probably > a bit late in this release cycle to try this out, but if we prefer > gnupg and add a dire warning to gnupg2 that switching the link is > completely untested, maybe it's ok :) Well, whatever we do: We should test it carefully! > The other option could be to drop gnupg and just use gnupg2. Hm: popcon report for users of gnupg vs. gnupg2: 7:1. I don't consider this an option. gnupg is further of priority:standard. gnupg2 depends on libcurl, which is of priority:optional (see our solution with gnupg). Ditto for several other dependencies: libpth20, libksba8 and also Gtk+ and its dependencies if you consider to leave the dependency on pinentry-gtk. How are your plans here? Further: What about gpgv? Is it shipped with gnupg2? gnupg2 is IMO not a replacement option for gnupg in Debian atm. > gnupg2 > has a slightly larger footprint, and has a few more small > dependencies. We may be able to tighten things up a bit so that it > takes up less space. I would suggest you start with this. > But I think making it an alternative is a better, more incremental > step. I would like to see this tested, because I have doubts, that one can easily switch between them (especially because of a few user reports I got - but to be honest: I don't know for sure, that the problems were caused by gnupg vs gnupg2). Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
