On 07/13/2010 10:51 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 09:57:38AM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 07/13/2010 09:54 AM, Karel Klic wrote: >>> >>> 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. Sure. This sounds like the right approach for now. Andrew. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
