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[PATCH] gnu: address@hidden: Superseded by the latest GnuPG. |
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Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:50:11 -0500 |
The 2.0 series of GnuPG will stop receiving upstream support on
2017-12-31. From the release announcement of GnuPG 2.2.0:
"This release marks the start of a new long term support series
to replace the 2.0.x series which will reach end-of-life on 2017-12-31."
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2017q3/000413.html
* gnu/packages/gnupg.scm (gnupg-2.0)[properties]: New field.
---
gnu/packages/gnupg.scm | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnupg.scm b/gnu/packages/gnupg.scm
index 7a791aecd..247e907b1 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gnupg.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gnupg.scm
@@ -341,7 +341,8 @@ libskba (working with X.509 certificates and CMS data).")
;; Keep the old name around to ease transition.
(symlink "gpgv" "gpgv2")
(symlink "gpg" "gpg2")
- #t)))))))))
+ #t)))))))
+ (properties `((superseded . ,gnupg)))))
(define-public gnupg-1
(package (inherit gnupg)
--
2.15.1
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Re: [bug#29792] [PATCH] gnu: address@hidden: Superseded by the latest GnuPG. |
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Thu, 21 Dec 2017 12:45:07 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) |
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 11:11:56AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Since this makes it impossible to install gnupg-2.0 unless one uses -e,
> I thought we could remove the definition altogether, but maybe what you
> propose is a good middle-ground since it gives an escape hatch for
> someone “who knows what they’re doing.”
It seems there are some big differences between 2.0 and later series.
Notably, 2.0 still uses the old pubring.gpg and secring.gpg keyrings and
supports PGP-2 keys. But 2.0 uses the newer multi-process architecture
compared to 1.4.
https://gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html
So, there could be people still wanting to use 2.0 for a while. I think
we should remove it completely soonish.
I pushed as 806e891e85aff27ea87c4e60930d8c4ed7d5091f.
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