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

[Eric Dorland]

* Werner Koch (wk at gnupg.org) wrote:
> 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.

Point taken. How long are you planning to support the 1.4 branch?

> > 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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Eric Dorland <eric at kuroneko.ca>
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