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For some time now those maintaining gnupg have been attempting to go |
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gnupg-2 only on Gentoo. I have tried to support that effort, despite all |
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other distros supporting/providing both. Not to mention all gnupg |
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release notes stating. |
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"GnuPG-2 has a different architecture than GnuPG-1 (e.g. 1.4.7) in that |
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it splits up functionality into several modules. However, both |
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versions may be installed alongside without any conflict. In fact, |
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the gpg version from GnuPG-1 is able to make use of the gpg-agent as |
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included in GnuPG-2 and allows for seamless passphrase caching. The |
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advantage of GnuPG-1 is its smaller size and the lack of dependency on |
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other modules at run and build time. We will keep maintaining GnuPG-1 |
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versions because they are very useful for small systems and for server |
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based applications requiring only OpenPGP support." |
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http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2007q2/000254.html |
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http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2007q1/000252.html |
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http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q4/000242.html |
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http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q4/000239.html |
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Also |
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"There are no plans to give up development on 1.4 after the 2.0 |
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release." |
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http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q4/000236.html |
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This has sparked the following open bugs, and countless more closed |
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ones :( |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153496 |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160302 |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164523 |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171871 |
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Probably more open bugs, those are just what I stumbled across while |
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looking for OTHER things :) |
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I tried to squelsh this early on with. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159623 |
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I am really not effected by this any more. Just concerned that a problem |
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that showed up in January, still exists to this day :( Bugs keep |
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stacking up and a resolution, short of slotting and providing both. Is |
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no where in site :( |
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For the record I fully support those in their efforts to go gnupg-2 only |
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on Gentoo. However it's not been practical for some time, and likely |
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will continue to be such. There is a bit of upstream chaos going on, and |
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till they rein in the problems. Not much we can do downstream. |
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Not to mention we deviate from all other distros i their offerings. |
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Where we have limited offerings, lack of choice :( Which does not seem |
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to be in Gentoo's nature. |
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No more from me on this. I have done enough on bugs, and me taking this |
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to -dev is my final contributions. I leave it up to others to decide and |
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resolve. I was over my limits months ago on this :) |
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Thanks to all who have made effort to get this resolved or etc. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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Gentoo/Java |
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