[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#808452: Bug#808452: gnupg2: gpgconf from gnupg2 package breaks gpg 1.4.19

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Sonntag, 20. Dezember 2015, 13:54:56 CET schrieb Werner Koch:
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 11:04, Martin at Lichtvoll.de said:
> > After using crypto in KMail, I think, gpg 1.4.19 is broken like this:
> [ NB. You should not use 1.4 with Kmail.  We actually developed Kmail
>   along with 2.x. ]

I will happily switch to GPG 2. I searched once where to set in it which gpg 
to use, but I didn´t find it at that time.

> > cause gpgconf adds an option to it that gpg 1.4 does not understand:
> gpgconf is from GnuPG-2 and thus knows about GnuPG-2.x options.  It is
> obvious that we can't add options from 2.0 also to 1.4.  There are
> two ways to mitigate this:
> 
>  1. Use "gpg.conf-1" for your GnuPG 1.x configuration
> 
>  2. Add "ignore-invalid-options OPTIONNAMES" to gpg.conf before the
>     first GPGConf marker line.  This will silently ignore the listed
>     unknown options.

I see, thanks.

Okay, feel free to close the report.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin