Re: gpg-agent in Sarge?
Hi, Isaac Clerencia wrote:
> To make encryption work properly I needed to run the gpg-agent,
> but it is not available in Debian, so I used some [1]external packages
> (created in June 2003, that worked fine with current gnupg).
>
Right...
> According to [2]bug report 187548 in March, Matthias Urlichs and James
> Troup were talking about uploading a [3]gnupg2 (which adds S/MIME
> support and gpg-agent) package to experimental, but I can't see any
> gnupg package in experimental now, neither a gpg-agent executable on
> Sarge.
Sorry about that. I planned on packaging gpg2 (with a separate binary
package for gpg-agent), but that idea got shelved because the
gcrypt/gnutls update was arguably more important.
> So it seems KDE users won't be able to do GPG/MIME in Sarge, I don't
> think this is a major issue,
Well, I think it's somewhat unfortunate, but nothing can be done about
it. I'll push for that in etch; at that time gnupg2 should be released too.
> but at least it would be nice to have
> gnupg2 packages at experimental soon.
>
I'll do that, most likely before Sarge is released.
--
Matthias Urlichs
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