[Pkg-gnupg-maint] dirmngr moved into gnupg 2.1 source tree

[Eric Dorland]

Hi Peter,

I'm not sure you're aware but we've had a few sessions and discussions
around GnuPG at DebConf in Portland this week. One of the things that
came up is packaging GnuPG 2.1 in experimental. dkg and I had a quick
sprint to try to get a basic package together and we ran into the
problem of dirmngr.

GnuPG 2.1 drops the existing key fetching mechanisms and relies
completely on dirmngr for this functionality. On top of that, the
source code has moved into gnupg tree (see
http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=tree;f=dirmngr;h=73a5e49cecfe382f9a476351fc8884fc3f494328;hb=HEAD).

So, were you aware of this change? Did you already have plans for
dealing with it? We'd like to get gnupg2.1 in experimental but obviously
don't want to hijack your package as a side effect.

If you're OK with the transition from its own package to the gnupg
tree, I would suggest you join the pkg-gnupg alioth project and you
can continue your work on dirmngr there (and feel free to move the
existing dirmngr package to pkg-gnupg). Then we can just upload the
new gnupg 2.1 to experimental (and only experimental, we won't upload
to unstable until it's been released by upstream) with the new
dirmngr.

How does that sound?

-- 
Eric Dorland <eric at kuroneko.ca>
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