On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 05:52:45AM +0000, Christopher wrote:
> I just ran into this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309175
> It's not a huge deal (and there are several workarounds, for git and for
> other tools which default ot using 'gpg'), but it highlights the mismatch
> between the default /usr/bin/gpg running gpg1, when other tools, like
> gpg-agent, are tailored for gpg2.
> 
> RHEL/CentOS has shipped /usr/bin/gpg with gnupg2 since at least sometime in
> RHEL6.

Which was a mistake, in my opinion.

> I'm not saying we shouldn't continue to ship gnupg1, but can we at least
> rename it, so gnupg package is version 2, and gnupg1 provides /usr/bin/gpg1
> instead? This seems overdue. Is there any reason not to do this?

I am opposed to this. If a tool wants/needs to
use v2 it should be using gpg2 not gpg. gpg v1.4.x is still active
upstream and is shipped as gpg so we shouldn't be renaming it.

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