[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#831500: Bug#831500: gnupg: Please declare that GnuPG 2.x breaks debsig-verify

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

On Wed, 2016-08-03 at 15:43:35 +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 18:11, guillem at debian.org said:
> > The debsig-verify program parses gpg --list-packets output, but its
> > parser was not very lenient of different but valid input. With GnuPG
> 
> --list-packets is more of a debugging aid than a fixed API.  You should
> not use it in other ways.
> 
> Why do you need it at all?  Maybe we can find a better solution.

It is used to get some kind of machine readable format, but don't ask
me why --list-packets was chosen as such interface (perhaps at the
time there was nothing else?), this is way beyond my time. I have no
problem with switching to something more appropriate though, so I'll
be doing that for the next upstream release. Thanks for the notice!

Regards,
Guillem