On October 26, 2008 at 11:11AM +0100, zack (at debian.org) wrote: > Indeed, the fact that EasyPG is now integrated in development version > of Emacs is my main reason for objecting this ITP. [...] > Hence the question goes as: considering that the next release of > Debian is most likely going to be released with Emacs (>= 23.1), which > is integrated properly with EasyPG, do we need alpaca in Debian? I > believe the answer is «no». [...] > > `alpaca' just provides a hook function for *.gpg file handling. > > Meanwhile EasyPG is a powerful tool which also provides keyring > > browser, dired integration, mail functions and so on. So, the > > source code of alpaca is more small and simple. > > Yes, but EasyPG is integrated with a package we already have, and the > complexity you are mentioning is not exposed to the random user of > *.gpg files.
I think that the alpaca package isn't meaningless even if less people use alpaca than EasyPG. `alpaca' uses symmetric encryption with "--cipher-algo AES" for a new *.gpg file by default, while I haven't found an easy way to customizet EasyPG. To avoid the complexity of handling *.gpg files, I won't enable the alpaca feature if EasyPG is installed, and I'll suggest EasyPG and add more information in the alpaca package document. FYI: you may enable both alpaca and EasyPG's epa-file with setting alpaca-regex-suffix to "\\.gnupg$" (other than ".gpg"). Thanks, -- Tatsuya Kinoshita
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