[arch-dev-public] Upgrading gnupg to 2.0 branch, removing gnupg2

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Mon Mar 19 01:43:08 EDT 2012


On 19/03/12 14:52, Gaetan Bisson wrote:
> [2012-03-19 08:20:34 +1000] Allan McRae:
>> I think thet gnupg1 is more suited to what _ALL_ Arch systems use gpgme
>> for.  The simple verification of package signatures.
> 
> Well, linux-2.6.27.62 would also be sufficient to run Arch. But we only
> package modern stable upstream releases, and certain users actually make
> use of their modern features.
> 

As I pointed out before, whether gnupg2 is a stable version or an
"unstable development version"
(http://www.gnupg.org/download/release_notes.en.html) is up for debate.
 If that gets changed by upstream, then I will have no objection to
dropping gnupg1.

Allan


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