[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#806904: Bug#806904: Please document how to switch to gpg2

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Hi Guido--

On Wed 2015-12-02 12:48:04 -0500, Guido Günther wrote:
> I wanted to use gpg2 for "everything" like signing git tags, etc. Since
> these tools still invoke gpg directly I checked /etc/alternatives/gpg
> but did not find any so I went for:
>
> cat <<EOF
> #!/bin/bash
>
> exec gpg2 "$*"
>
> in the path to invoke gpg2 instead of gpg Is that the recommended
> procedure in Debian atm or did I miss docs on that? I checked
>
>     man gpg2
>
> and /usr/share/doc/gnupg2/README.Debian but did not find any pointers on
> this issue.

the right way to do this is for the packages to do it for you.  the
gnupg2 package will at some point (hopefully soon) provide /usr/bin/gpg,
and the 1.4 branch will become /usr/bin/gpg1.  This was discussed at
Debconf this summer, but hasn't been completed yet.  Expect to see it in
experimental before it hits unstable, though ;)

I'm reluctant to officially document "how to switch to gpg2" before that
because i don't want to have lots of people doing it in ways that will
cause breakage once the packages transition directly.

      --dkg