[pkg-gnupg-maint] some news about 'Crypt::GPG' [aftermath of Debian Bug Report #875124]

[Dimitar Ivanov]

Hi Ashish,

you are right - I sent you an email in January 2018, and not (as I 
thought) in September 2017.. Anyway, it's great that you are going to look 
at my patches. I already sent you an encrypted email with the code 
attached. Please let me/us know about 'Crypt::GPG' related news.

Thanks a lot,
Dimitar


On Wed, 12 Sep 2018, Crypt-GPG wrote:

> Hi Dimitar
>
> I received your email in January and I thought I’d replied to it but
> I can’t locate the reply so it seems I didn’t actually send the mail.
>
> I’ll be happy to take a look at your patches and incorporate them
> into the module. I haven’t had a chance to work on this module
> for a while but I do plan to update it soon.
>
> Cheers
> Ashish
>
>
>> On Sep 1, 2018, at 3:26 PM, Dimitar Ivanov <drimiks at freeshell.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> about 1 year ago I wanted to use on Debian the latest available package of 'Crypt::GPG' (https://metacpan.org/pod/release/AGUL/Crypt-GPG-1.64/GPG.pm). After some modifications and a bugfix on deleting tmp-files, it worked fine for encrypting, decrypting, and signing documents (also the test suite run without errors). Since then I'm using it on Debian GNU/Linux 7.11 (Wheezy with 'gpg' v. 1.4.12 ) and Debian GNU/Linux 9.5 (Stretch with 'gpg' v. 2.1.18) without any problems. At the same time I tried to contact the upstream author Ashish Gulhati (in Cc) in September 2017 and send him an email considering the modifications and also doing a suggestion for a new release, which should work then with GnuPG versions 1.x and 2.x. Unfortunately I didn't receive any response - it seems that upstream (in CC of this mail) is no more active where the last modification on CPAN is from "20 Sep 2014 04:12:11 GMT".
>>
>> Since my estimated probability that 'libcrypt-gpg-perl' will be resurrected
>> in Debian is near zero, I'm trying to make (a new unofficial version of) the
>> package available to the debian-community by choosing an alternative
>> plan. I've prepared a tgz-archive and an unofficial deb-package
>> ('libcrypt-gpg-perl_1.65.0-1.unofficial_all.deb') which I want to put on
>> my web-page http://gnu.mirendom.net/.
>>
>> Yet before doing so, I'll appreciate your opinion about the issue. Also, if
>> someone of the gnupg-packaging team is interested in testing or reviewing
>> the package, I'll provide it to him via a private communication.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dimitar Ivanov
>>
>
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