[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#884367: Bug#884367: gnupg2: Please bring skel files back as documentation/examples

[Matthew Gabeler-Lee]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2017, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> iirc, upstream has completely dropped the skeleton files completely from
> their source

The current debian package in stable still has the patch to remove the 
files so they are there in that version.  But I just checked the package 
in /testing and indeed upstream has removed those files there.  I guess 
that renders most of my wishlist item here moot :/

> I'm not convinced that adding our own example skeleton
> file to usr/share/doc/gpg/examples is worth deviating from upstream.

Agreed, given upstream has removed the examples, having Debian ship its 
doesn't make sense.

> can you give me an example of what you'd like to see in such a skeleton
> file?  My ideal config file is the empty file :)

My case was looking for essentially documentation on the recommendations 
for some parameters that I think default to empty.  In particular I was 
having trouble with keys.gnupg.net and was wondering if there was a 
newer recommended server to use, hoping to find that in an updated copy 
of that sample file.

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 	-Matt
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