Bug#705536: tag gnupg bug 704645 wheezy-ignore
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
Release team,
This is a request to consider tagging #704645 in GnuPG wheezy-ignore.
My reasoning follows.
The behaviour of gpg --verify has been this way since forever (not
intended as a justification of this behaviour per se). I checked it
against Lenny to be sure and it works this way. Releasing wheezy
with it does not worsen the situation we're currently in.
Because the behaviour has been this way this long, it doesn't seem
safe to change it so shortly before a release. Also, if we want
to change this behaviour, it needs to be done by upstream, as in
my opinion having this option behave differently on different
distributions would be even less desirable than the current situation.
The issue has already been forwarded for upstream's opinion, but
we're waiting on a response.
Finally, there exists a documented way to use gpg which gives the
right information in a machine parsable form, which implementors
can use.
Cheers,
Thijs
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