Howdy all, I am preparing a new version of ‘dput’ that stops using ‘/usr/bin/gpg’, and instead uses the GPGME library for GnuPG operations.
Currently, as of ‘dput’ version 0.10, GnuPG operations are done by invoking the ‘/usr/bin/gpg’ command in a subprocess. This is fragile in several ways, not least that it depends on stream output from the command to determine the result of operations. I expect GPGME <URL:https://gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/> will make it easier for ‘dput’ to support more systems. So I am preparing a version of ‘dput’ > 0.10 that will stop using a specific command path in a subprocess, and instead use the library API. Before the release I would like to have some testers try the program for regressions. If your packaging workflow has unusual signing practices, or an unusual GnuPG configuration, your help will be especially valuable to test this change. Please contact me at <d...@packages.debian.org> to offer your packaging system to test this new release. -- \ “Sane people have an appropriate perspective on the relative | `\ importance of foodstuffs and human beings. Crazy people can't | _o__) tell the difference.” —Paul Z. Myers, 2010-04-18 | Ben Finney
