[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#1022702: Bug#1022702: Bug#1022702: gnupg: Migrating packaging from 2.2.x to "stable" 2.3.x

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 09:18:27AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Christian Kastner <ckk at debian.org> writes:
> > On 2023-06-12 17:01, Sune Stolborg Vuorela wrote:
> >> Any chance you can give Andreas a go ahead to push a newer Gnupg2 to at least 
> >> experimental, or preferably unstable ?
> >
> > I, too, would appreciate a newer version. It turns out that in versions
> > prior to 2.3, the 'kdf-setup' option with cards does not work [1]. At
> > least, that was the case with both Yubikeys and Nitrokeys here on my end.
> 
> How about uploading ametzler's branch to experimental, as a start?  It
> is good time after the bookworm release.  I offer to help maintain GnuPG
> in Debian.  Perhaps uploading it to mentors would be a first step, any
> objections?
> 
> There are some new features in GnuPG 2.4.x that I rely on, having to
> build it locally is a pain.

+1 for an upload of 2.4 to experimental; I'm quite interested in playing
with the support for TPM backed keys.

I haven't seen dkg or Eric weigh in on this thread, but they've had a
few months to object and given gnupg lives under the debian/ tree in
salsa I'd take that as an indication that an upload to experimental
would be acceptable.

J.

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