[Pkg-gnupg-maint] GnuPG v2 usage

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

Just finished watching the “GnuPG in Debian BoF” video, and only
wanted to mention/add few things. As a testimonial I've been trying
to use gnupg2 by default on my system for almost a year now, and it
seems to work fine everywhere I use it.

In case people might not have realized, to make it easier for others to
try to use gnupg2, and because it was not clear what the upgrade path
was from v1 to v2 at the time, I added native support for gnupg2/gpgv2
to dpkg 1.17.2, so they are tried first, and then fallback to gnupg/gpgv,
but the default Recommends order are inverted to not pull gnupg2 by
default. So if you install gnupg2 and gpgv2 they will be used by default
by dpkg-dev.

So the only things I've had to modify have been:

,--- ~/.gitconfig ---
[gpg]
        program = gpg2
`---

,--- ~/.devscripts ---
DEBSIGN_PROGRAM=gpg2
`---

I realized from the talk I also need to update my muttrc, but that
should just be a matter of using /etc/Muttrc.d/gpg.rc as a template
and replacing gpg with gpg2, which I'll be doing right now. And
eventually tell mutt to use the gpg-agent (pgp_use_gpg_agent = yes).

So, these give a non-intrusive way to test the newer packages right
away.

BTW, great talk. :)

Thanks,
Guillem