Quoting Daniel Kahn Gillmor (2017-09-08 00:11:16) > Over on https://bugs.debian.org/873753, Ricardo Mones wrote: > > > The current maintainer of libcrypt-gpg-perl, Roberto Jimeno > > <robertojimen...@terra.es>, > > is apparently not active anymore. Therefore, I orphan this package now. > > fwiw, this package has not been updated for many years (nearly a > decade), and is several versions behind upstream (1.52, in unstable > today, was released upstream in 2005!). I strongly doubt whether it > even works with modern versions of GnuPG. It also has no reverse > dependencies. > > As one of the members of the debian GnuPG packaging team, i recommend > that we let libcrypt-gpg-perl be removed from debian. > > There are too many bindings for GnuPG in different languages, and > keeping them all up-to-date and clean is a pain. we should focus on one > or at most two per language. > > In debian, we have at least: > > libmail-gnupg-perl > libgnupg-perl > libcrypt-gpg-perl > libgnupg-interface-perl > libpgp-sign-perl > > GnuPG upstream doesn't directly support any of these, unfortunately. > > We do *not* currently ship Crypt::GpgME. I know that upstream prefers > bindings to use gpgme instead of shelling out to gpg, but Crypt::GpgME > hasn't been updated since 2009. > > When i last looked in-depth, i thought that GnuPG::Interface was the > best of the lot. But I have had to do a bunch of work to make > libgnupg-interface-perl work with modern GnuPG recently, and it hasn't > been accepted upstream :( > > I don't know what shape the rest of these packages are really in, > either. > > So i'm afraid that i currently think there are *no* good interfaces to > GnuPG in perl at the moment :( We should be culling the ones that we can > cull from debian, so that we can focus on a single good implementation. > > I welcome help from either GnuPG or Perl maintainers in figuring out > what is the best approach here.
How about https://github.com/ueno/gpgme-glib and then use GIR for Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
