[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#985158: Bug#985158: Bug#985158: Bug#985158: gpg: No longer reads .gnupg/options

[Werner Koch]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 14:32, Christoph Biedl said:

> Point is, the legacy file ~/.gnupg/options is still being used in
> surprisingly many applications, also in documentation:

Then please file a bug against such documentation.  And maybe even
against any application which read the option filre directly, that is
without using gpgconf.

>     https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=.gnupg%2Foptions&literal=1

Look at the code shown tehre: Almost everywhere it is used as a fallback
from gpg.conf.

> In Debian, revert that commit, and emit a deprecation warning if the
> legacy file is parsed.

Sysadmins will kill you if you do that.  The global conf file has been a
long standing request from many parties.  It comes very hadny for large
installations because it can be used to enforce options on users.  That
is why I took the trouble to actually backported this from master.

Supporting the legacy option file would be a Bad Idea.  In particular
for a new major release it should be not a problem to add release notes
mention that after 18 years the deprecated legacy option file is not
anymore supported.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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