Hi Morten, Thanks for the summary. On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 13:31:13, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote:
Why was this removed with no headsup? It caused a fair bit of confusion for a few people and the cause of this issue isn't very clear when packaged fail to verify. Ideally we should have pushed gnupg with an epoch?
I removed the package after Jan informed me yesterday that the package is broken. Apologies for not making a public announcement; I should have send an email to our mailing lists. The package has two undocumented patches, one to remove a warning and another one that's required for pacman. I was not aware that pacman required a patched version of GnuPG and will work on porting/rebasing and documenting the patches before pushing a new build. When it comes to pushing with epoch, my understanding was that it is expected that packages break occasionally in [testing] and might get dropped. The recommendation for all [testing] users used to be to subscribe to arch-dev-public where dropped packages are (or at least should be) announced. Do we want to provide upgrade paths for broken packages in [testing]? Best, Lukas