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

[Sune Vuorela]

On Monday 01 March 2010 05:20:44 Eric Dorland wrote:
> * 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.

With my kdepim-maint-hat on (not my mostly inactive gnupg comaintainer hat) I 
would like to see gpg moved to use alternatives, with gpg2 having a slightly 
higher priority than gpg1. At the same time, I would like to see gpg-agent 
starting unconditionally by the xsession to give kdepim users the best 
possible crypto experience. kdepim relies on a functioning gpg-agent in order 
to do crypto stuff, something that I get more and more requests about to get 
fully working.

/Sune
 - and I would be happy to see gnupg2 being part of pkg-gnupg if the 
   maintainer follows along ;)
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