Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 215494
Update to gnupg 2.0
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:48 EST
Description of problem: 2.0 has just been released. http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q4/000239.html Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Rex is already building a gnupg2 2.0.0 package for Extras. Beyond that, we still need to figure out.
Is the plan to ship both gnupg2 and gnupg, or just one?
I haven't gotten in touch with Rex yet. David, do you have a preference?
For several reasons, I would argue for both, at least for the near term, and quite possibly for the long term as well. gnupg is more proven and tested at this point (which is not to say the gnupg2 code is bad, just that there are vastly more people running gnupg). People have also built gnupg into all sorts of scripts and processes, and a forced change to gnupg2 stands a good chance of breaking these. The "2.x" designation is unfortunate in that it implies that the new version replaces the "1.x" version. In fact, the GnuPG project is going to be maintaining both versions as they serve different purposes. gnupg and gnupg2 are designed to be able to coexist, so there is no harm in having someone install both.
See also bug #215803.
For now at least, I think we'll stick to two packages. Marking as deferred.