Simon Joseffson <si...@joseffson.org <mailto:si...@joseffson.org>> wrote:
> It seems there is push from the anti-GnuPG people to promote a fork called > FreePG instead of real GnuPG, will you package that? > > https://gitlab.com/freepg/gnupg FreePG is not an anti-GnuPG project, if anything it’s trying to keep GnuPG on Linux alive as long as possible, so as not to force users into a disruptive sudden migration to other tools. It is also very deliberately not a fork, but rather a set of discrete patches that are already being applied by multiple downstreams, some dating back years. > Who is behind FreePG? Me, mostly. I wrote the CI tooling that runs FreePG, and dkg has been helping to review and de-lint the patches against upstream, in consultation with other downstreams. > Or do we want to trust 'Hooty McOwlface' with no earlier publicly recorded > community contributions? Some clarity about Hooty is overdue. It is a machine account controlled by a Docker container that currently runs on my laptop, primarily because there are some automation tasks (such as mangling branch histories) that are not currently easy to do in the GitLab CI. I have commented on tickets using Hooty’s name in the past, but I’m trying to avoid it these days to avoid giving the impression that Hooty has an opinion. At some point I may decide to walk away from the project, in which case I can hand Hooty over to someone else as a functioning unit. > This is even more true considering that the people who are patching GnuPG > seems to be the same people who are working on replacing GnuPG with Seqoia. If you mean dkg, he’s been doing thankless work for years now trying to keep the OpenPGP ecosystem together, including by wrangling downstream packaging for *multiple* projects. The Sequoia project has never been involved in FreePG, and they most likely found out about it the same way everyone else here did. FreePG is an orthogonal project and is not intended to either help or impede adoption of Sequoia - the target userbase is people who can not, or do not wish to, migrate away from GnuPG (yet?), but also don’t wish to become incompatible with mainstream OpenPGP. A
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