[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Why 2.1 is delayed for so long

[Eric Dorland]

* Werner Koch (wk at gnupg.org) wrote:
[snip]
> > So i think that gpg2.1 needs to somehow detect that the running agent is
> > old, and either fail more gracefully (making it clear to the user  or
> > actually restart the agent if it can be sure that gpg-agent is the right
> > version.
> 
> Restarting without user consent might be problematic.

My $0.02 is that it's fine to just print an error with instructions on
how to restart your gpg-agent.

> >  0) dirmngr
> >
> > gpg2.1 depends on the latest version of dirmngr for any/all of its
> > remote access functionality (e.g. keyserver fetches).  Debian has
> > traditionally packaged dirmngr separately from gnupg, but it looks like
> > we should really bring the two of them together.  This is is
> > debian-specific packaging work; we've already gotten permission of the
> > dirmngr maintainer to do this, so it's just outstanding work that needs
> 
> The question is whether the old dirmnagr is at all useful.  How many are
> using it to check CRLs or run OCSP checks for X.509?

Does the new version not support the same operations as the old one?
 
> Or would it be useful to rename the new dirmngr so that both can
> co-exist?  The name is anyway alien to GnuPG. 

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Eric Dorland <eric at kuroneko.ca>
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