Re: consolidating on gnupg2 in F10

[Benjamin Lewis <ben.lewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 12:48 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Steve Grubb wrote:
> > > On Friday 18 July 2008 09:11:21 Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > > Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > > > For a really long time now, we've shipped both gnupg and gnupg2
> > > > > in Fedora. In fact, in Fedora 9 a relatively standard install will
> > > > > get both installed.
> > > > > It appears a good number of these can be ported to gnupg2, if not
> > > > > all of them. Should we wire up a feature page?
> > > > Imo, yes, it's a worthy goal to get these ported so that at least gnupg(1)
> > > > doesn't land in any default install.
> > > >
> > > > fyi, here's my inquiry upstrem on whether it's possible or a good idea to
> > > > try dropping gnupg1:
> > > > http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2008-July/024485.html
> > > >
> > > > answer: probably not a good idea.
> > > Why did you come to that conclusion? We don't support IDEA and Suse did 
> > > mention that they have switched to only GPG2. The only caution is around 
> > > gpg-agent.
> > based on Werner Koch's response:
> > http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2008-July/024490.html
> >
> > "You should don't remove gnupg-1 from a distribution..."
>
> He also says you should ship BIND 8 and 9.  And there are people that
> say you should ship KDE 3.x and KDE 4 desktops.
>
> We should cut the cruft and onvert what we ship to use gnupg2.
> Otherwise, the fact that there are two will persist forever.
>
> Jeremy

+1

This is the same argument that exists for compatibility libraries: their 
existence in distributions is a disincentive for developers to port 
their applications.

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