Re: How should we handle gnupg v1.4.X as gpg1?

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On Wed, 2017-10-11 at 05:33 +0000, Christopher wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 5:44 PM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <
> dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday, 10 October 2017 at 20:57, Christopher wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 1:04 PM Brian C. Lane <bcl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > The time for change is finally, almost here :) Upstream is
> > > > talking
> > 
> > about
> > > > installing the v1.4 series as gpg1. They have already switched
> > > > the
> > > > default install of 2.2 to /usr/bin/gpg, but we currently
> > > > override this
> > > > with the --enable-gpg-is-gpg2 switch in gnupg2.
> > > > 
> > > > Tracker bug here - https://dev.gnupg.org/T3443
> > > > Discussion -
> > > > https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2017-October/0331
> > > > 51.html
> > > > 
> > > > When this happens I plan on tracking upstream's change and
> > > > installing
> > 
> > as
> > > > gpg1, but I'm pretty sure we need a plan so that things don't
> > > > end up
> > 
> > all
> > > > broken.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Have you considered using alternatives as part of that plan, with
> > > gpg2
> > 
> > set
> > > to higher priority than gpg1? Since upstream calls both binaries
> > > "gpg",
> > 
> > it
> > > kind of already makes sense to deconflict them with the
> > > alternatives
> > 
> > system
> > > in this way.
> > 
> > Alternatives are for things that are drop-in replacements. As far
> > as I
> > know, gpg2 is not a drop-in replacement for gpg1.
> > 
> 
> I suppose it depends on which characteristics you're considering when
> you
> compare the two. I can't be the only one who has noticed their
> command-line
> usage similarities, which is the characteristic I would expect to
> matter
> when considering using the alternatives system.

I think that the incompatibility of the key storage warrants for not
using the alternatives system in this case.

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