2010/7/13 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>: > 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 > -- No need to introduce a new compat-gnupg14 package, simply revive gnupg in koji is enough. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=453 gnupg 2.x is named as gnupg2 in fedora. Regards, Chen Lei -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
