Re: [PATCH 1/1] skip RFC1991 tests with gnupg 2.1.x

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> on Thu, 2014/12/11 15:10:
> Christian Hesse <mail@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > However... Even if GnuPG 2.2.x (or whatever future release) will become
> > next stable: It will not reintroduce support for rfc1991.
> 
> How certain are we about the deprecation?

The sixth beta of GnuPG [0] had this change:

 * gpg: Removed the option --pgp2 and --rfc1991 and the ability to
   create PGP-2 compatible messages.

> It also would make us feel safer if we did not have to depend on the
> version or keyfile format (which would not have anything to do with
> the decision to support or not to support rfc1991 format) to check
> if the feature is supported, but that is a separate issue.

Changed in next version.

[0] http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q3/000354.html
-- 
Best regards,
Chris

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