Re: gnupg problem
Colin Phipps <cph@netcraft.com> writes:
> > No, you're wrong. The mailcrypt front end, for example, works with
> > both. And that's the case we are talking about.
>
> It depends how the compatibility works. If it's mailcrypt providing
> the compatibility, then it's mailcrypt that should list the
> compatible packages, IMHO. Depends: implies more than just
> something-like-that-must-be-present, it implies a particular
> supporting interface is required for the package to work.
Mailcrypt has separate interfaces to PGP 2.6.x, PGP 5, and GnuPG, in
separate source files.
> If OTOH mailcrypt is just using a small subset of the commands such
> that any reasonable PGP clone should work with it, then the virtual
> package is possibly the right way to go.
PGP clones usually interoperate on the transmission format level, not
on the command-line interface level (if they interoperate at all, of
course).
> It sounds to me like a bad cure to the wrong problem, policy should just be
> clearer that a main package is allowed to depend on an |ed set of packages
> providing at least one is in main, IMHO.
Yes, this makes sense, I think.
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