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

[Eric Dorland]

* Eric Dorland (eric at debian.org) wrote:
> [adding back petere]
> 
> * Eric Dorland (eric at debian.org) wrote:
> > * Peter Eisentraut (petere at debian.org) wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 17:17 -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > I knew this was coming, but gnupg2 appears to move at glacial speeds, so
> > > I had almost forgotten about it already.
> > 
> > OK, glad this isn't a surprise. I agree it's been pretty slow 

I didn't finish my thought here. It's been slow but there have been
several betas this year and it maybe hampered by no one trying it. If
we put it in experimental we could help with that.
  
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > It appears to me that the dirmngr binary package ought to be built from
> > > the gnupg2 source package going forward, seeing that the top-level
> > > configure has various dirmngr related options.  So feel free to take
> > > whatever you need out of the existing dirmngr source package and drop it
> > > into gnupg2.
> > 
> > Will do! I mean it's too early to actually switch dirmngr since gnupg
> > 2.1 isn't ready yet, but hopefully it may release in the next year.
> > 
> > > I'm quite glad to get rid of this package and put it into more dedicated
> > > hands.
> > 
> > Should we move the existing dirmngr to the pkg-gnupg project?
> > 
> 



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