Re: Should GnuPG 1.4.x be revived?

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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 09:57:38AM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 07/13/2010 09:54 AM, Karel Klic wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > several users of Emacs and one user of Vim complained in rhbz#574406 [1]
> > that they can no longer use their editor to open and edit gpg-encrypted 
> > files in Fedora 13.
> > 
> > The reason is that GnuPG 1.4 was deprecated after Fedora 12 release, and 
> > GnuPG 2 was introduced to replace it. However, GnuPG 2 is not entirely 
> > compatible with GnuPG 1.4.
> > 
> > I looked at GnuPG 2 and it seems that it would be very difficult to 
> > modify Emacs and Vim to support it. GnuPG 2 does not allow to enter a 
> > password using shell -- it needs entire terminal (as it uses ncurses 
> > program pinentry-curses).
> > Text editors can use only shell to send a password to GnuPG.
> > 
> > What about reviving GnuPG 1.4? It is maintained, secure, supported, and 
> > its integration into text editors is used extensively and works well. It 
> > can live alongside GnuPG 2.
> > 
> > What do you think? Any idea how to solve this issue?
> 
> This one really must be addressed upstream.  It's absurd that GnuPG
> doesn't work with GNU Emacs.  If needs be, Richard Stallman is quite
> capable of knocking the maintainers' heads together.

That is certainly the good approach to get a long term solution for
Fedora, but it isn't much use for people using Fedora 13 today who
have broken gpg support. It sounds like a compat-gnupg14 package is
a  reasonable approach to fixing this in Fedora 13 stable, and likely
also Fedora 14 if  upstream don't get their act together quickly enough
for that release.

Regards,
Daniel
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