On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 06:10:22PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> 
> Do you have earlier examples of Debian modifying upstream's desired wire
> crypto-sensitive protocol in the way like what is being done for GnuPG?
> Maybe there are some older OpenSSH or OpenSSL patches like that.

To reiterate, FreePG does not modify the cryptographic core of GnuPG, or its 
wire protocols, merely the preferences and defaults.

> I am hoping that the 'gnupg2' package could be altered towards that
> goal, and that some sort of compromise with the GnuPG Debian maintainers
> can be reached that providing a LibrePGP-compliant GnuPG in Debian is
> acceptable.

What is the criterion for LibrePGP compliance in your view? Is the ability to 
read and write LibrePGP wire formats not sufficient?

I would encourage readers to check the patch list at [1] and the discussion at 
[2].

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Andrew Gallagher        http://andrewg.com/     andr...@andrewg.com

[1] https://gitlab.com/freepg/gnupg/-/tree/main/STABLE-BRANCH-2-4-freepg
[2] https://gitlab.com/freepg/gnupg/-/issues/1

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