[pkg-gnupg-maint] Don't ship gnupg1 with bullseye

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Tue Feb 2 08:54:19 GMT 2021


On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 09:45:42AM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> Dominic Hargreaves wrote...
> 
> > Do the gnupg1 maintainers agree that it should be removed from bullseye?
> 
> IMnsHO it's a bad idea to remove gnupg1 any time soon. While it
> certainly should not be used for encryption, it's still needed when
> dealing with older keys. Quoting the package description: "It is
> provided mainly for people with the need to use archaic cryptographic
> objects like PGPv3 keys to access archived messages."
> 
> So unless it's really broken or likewise RC, it should be kept.

Ah, I wasn't aware of that use case. The impression I got from the
release team and Chris Hofstaedtler that request-tracker4 was the only
thing blocking removal.

Dominic



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