consolidating on gnupg2 in F10

[Benjamin Lewis]

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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