[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#483724: Bug#483724: gnupg2 alternatives

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Thu 2015-06-04 20:08:08 -0400, brian m. carlson wrote:
> It would be really great if we could get gnupg2 as an alternative.  Lots
> of programs, like git, expect to use "gpg" as the binary name, and it
> would be nice not to have to have a wrapper script for all those
> programs.

We're aware of this, and we're considering how to best make a transition
like this.

I think the team is leaning at the moment toward a hard cutover, as
sketched here:

 https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/GnuPG/Transition

We'd rather not have to diagnose problems many years into the future
with different variants of gnupg acting as /usr/bin/gpg, and
/etc/alternatives seems likely to prolong that particular agony.

Anyway, be aware that this is on our plate as a team, but we don't have
an answer for you yet.

   --dkg