[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#561540: Bug#561540: use update-alternatives to provide /usr/bin/gpg

[Eric Dorland]

* Daniel Leidert (daniel.leidert at 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. 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 :)

The other option could be to drop gnupg and just use gnupg2. 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.

But I think making it an alternative is a better, more incremental
step.
 
> Tagging this wontfix for the moment.
> 
> Regards, Daniel
> 
> 
> 
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