[pkg-gnupg-maint] transitioning to GnuPG 2.1 in debian

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:20, eric at debian.org said:

>>  * How long will we need to support the 1.4 branch for?
>
> Does anyone need 1.4? Are there any embedded versions of Debian that
> prefer it?

Please keep it.  Some people have data encrypted with PGP-2 keys and
they can't re-encrypt the data easily (missing tools, stored on read
only media or tapes).  Maybe renaming the 1.4 package would be
helpful.

> I guess we need to get commitment that 2.1 will get a "stable" release
> in the next 12-18 months, otherwise we'll be supporting something

It is stable.  However we received not enough reports from the betas so
that 2.1.* is used as a kind of public beta test.  And well some
features will be added.  I hope that by the end of the year we can
publish an end-of-life statement for 2.0, release 2.2.0, and continue
new work as 2.3 (targeting rfc4880bis)

> still vaguely experimental in stretch.

Migration is likely the most fragile part.  For new installations it
should not really matter once we have fixed possible compatibility
problems

>>  * is it OK to drop the 2.0.x branch entirely?
>
> I'm OK with it :)

There won't be any upstream support after say 2017.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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