Re: where can one find an official gnupg project statement on the state of sub project?

2015-03-06 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Wow at last someone has said it. What a good idea !! For gnupg > 2.1.2 as well ... I think this is a bad idea. Third-party software repositories are beyond the capabilities of many users, particularly casual ones. Their distro came with certain repositories pre-configured. So for us to

Re: where can one find an official gnupg project statement on the state of sub project?

2015-03-05 Thread Damien Goutte-Gattat
On 03/05/2015 10:34 AM, Werner Koch wrote: Regarding Scute, I expect that we will start to work on it again in ralation to Thunderbird. I know of at least one project which plans to start working on Thunderbird. Well, if you plan to work on Scute and release a new version, please consider app

Re: where can one find an official gnupg project statement on the state of sub project?

2015-03-05 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 05/03/15 11:33, Paulo Lopes wrote: > as of today (March 5, 2015) ubuntu 14.04 LTS is still offering gnupg > 1.4.16 even though there have been security issues fixed in 1.4.17, > 1.4.18 and 1.4.19. In a way a uninformed user that is under the > impression that gnupg is secure due to the fact t

Re: where can one find an official gnupg project statement on the state of sub project?

2015-03-05 Thread Philip Jackson
On 05/03/15 11:33, Paulo Lopes wrote: > If I could suggest something else, what about having official packages, say: > > * official ppa for ubuntu > * official rpm for RHEL/Centos/Fedora/SUSE > * official Arch AUR > > Of course this is quite some work and lots of distros are not here but for > ex

Re: where can one find an official gnupg project statement on the state of sub project?

2015-03-05 Thread Paulo Lopes
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 20:14, pa...@mlopes.net said: > > > It turns out that gnupg and gnupg2 are live and kicking, however the > other 2 > > projects seem to be dorment for long time without any updates. > > Right I have not looked at scrute and

Re: where can one find an official gnupg project statement on the state of sub project?

2015-03-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 20:14, pa...@mlopes.net said: > It turns out that gnupg and gnupg2 are live and kicking, however the other 2 > projects seem to be dorment for long time without any updates. Right I have not looked at scrute and poldi for a long time. There seems to be not enough interest. H

where can one find an official gnupg project statement on the state of sub project?

2015-03-04 Thread Paulo Lopes
Hello, I am a active use of gnupg and gnupg smart card, and unfortunately my OSS contributions are to other projects where I do have more experience so I totally understand any reply to my question. Currently I use: * gnupg * gnupg2 * poldi And did use: * scute It turns out that gnupg and gnu