On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 09:57:38AM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 07/13/2010 09:54 AM, Karel Klic wrote: > > Hi, > > > > several users of Emacs and one user of Vim complained in rhbz#574406 [1] > > that they can no longer use their editor to open and edit gpg-encrypted > > files in Fedora 13. > > > > The reason is that GnuPG 1.4 was deprecated after Fedora 12 release, and > > GnuPG 2 was introduced to replace it. However, GnuPG 2 is not entirely > > compatible with GnuPG 1.4. > > > > I looked at GnuPG 2 and it seems that it would be very difficult to > > modify Emacs and Vim to support it. GnuPG 2 does not allow to enter a > > password using shell -- it needs entire terminal (as it uses ncurses > > program pinentry-curses). > > Text editors can use only shell to send a password to GnuPG. > > > > What about reviving GnuPG 1.4? It is maintained, secure, supported, and > > its integration into text editors is used extensively and works well. It > > can live alongside GnuPG 2. > > > > What do you think? Any idea how to solve this issue? > > This one really must be addressed upstream. It's absurd that GnuPG > doesn't work with GNU Emacs. If needs be, Richard Stallman is quite > capable of knocking the maintainers' heads together.
That is certainly the good approach to get a long term solution for Fedora, but it isn't much use for people using Fedora 13 today who have broken gpg support. It sounds like a compat-gnupg14 package is a reasonable approach to fixing this in Fedora 13 stable, and likely also Fedora 14 if upstream don't get their act together quickly enough for that release. Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
