Hi, [ James: This is about the WNPP bugs 187546-9: ITPs for the GnuPG components dirmngr, libksba, pinentry, and newpg. NewPG was rolled back into GnuPG some time ago; it's going to become GnuPG2. ] Martin Michlmayr: > Shouldn't that bug just be closed? I'm sure out GnuPG maintainer will > upload 2.0 when it's out. Thanks for prompting me -- I meant to talk to James about this, but it slipped through the cracks. It's going to be some time, most likely after Sarge, until GnuPG 2.0 happens. Since GnuPG2 has a couple of other modules (GPG-Agent; the GpgSM smartcard interface program) which aren't yet available in Debian, but which users (including myself...) need -- for instance, they're somewhat essential for proper crypto support in KMail --, I've decided to take over packaging them. Ralf Nolden, the ITPs' author hasn't done anything about these ITPs for almost a year and is unlikely to have time in the foreseeable future. Upstream wants Debian versions of their code sooner rather than later; they've built hacked-together interim packages for these modules. That's not an ideal solution. I am working with Upstream to make sure that my packages work with the rest of both Project Aegypten, for which some other people already have some modules in Debian, and Sarge. Thus my intention is to properly package these modules for Debian, including pre-2.0 versions of GnuPG2. I am not going to let these packages disrupt Debian's GPG 1.2 in any way, of course. James, correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume that your schedule doesn't have much room for a couple of new packages at the moment... By the time GnuPG 2.0 comes around and is deigned to be Debian's official crypto solution, I'll be happy to either pass it over to James, or co-maintain GnuPG2 if he thinks I did a good-enough job. -- Matthias Urlichs
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