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Bug#599753: ITP: netpgp -- PGP signing, verification, encryption and decryption program



On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:41:22PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> 
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
> > 
> > * Package name    : netpgp
> >   Version         : 20100710
> >   Upstream Author : Alistair Crooks <agc@NetBSD.org>,
> >                     Ben Laurie, Rachel Willmer
> > * URL             : http://www.netbsd.org/
> > * License         : BSD
> >   Programming Lang: C
> >   Description     : PGP signing, verification, encryption and decryption program
> > 
> > The netpgp library is a BSD-licensed library for managing PGP keys.
> > 
> > On top of the library, the netpgp command can digitally sign files and
> > verify that the signatures attached to files were signed by a given
> > user identifier.  netpgp can also encrypt files using the public or
> > private keys of users and, in the same manner, decrypt files which
> > were encrypted.
> > 
> > The netpgpkeys utility can also be used to generate a new key-pair for
> > a user.  This key is in two parts, the public key (which can be used
> > by other people) and a private key.
> 
> Shouldn't the description mention 'OpenPGP' somewhere?  s/PGP
> keys/OpenPGP keys/ would be a suitable place for instance.

Good point!  Actually, both the short and long descriptions are
taken verbatim from the package's NetBSD pkgsrc metadata, but
there's no reason they must be the same in Debian :)  I'll reword
them in the RFS in a couple of days.

Thanks!

G'luck,
Peter

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