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bug#26090: 26.0.50; Documentation for epg-gpg-program not sufficient
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#26090: 26.0.50; Documentation for epg-gpg-program not sufficient |
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Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:57:37 +0200 |
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Jens Lechtenboerger <jens.lechtenboerger@fsfe.org> writes:
> I fail to see that this is a reasonable behavior (why initialize that
> variable to gpg2 in the first place although that value will be
> ignored?), but at least it needs to be documented.
That is indeed curious behaviour, but perhaps there's historical reasons
for this...
> +Note that if this variable has the default value \"gpg2\" and
> +if your version of gpg is 2.0.x (instead of the modern variant
> +2.1.x), then gpg 1.x will be used (if it is installed) regardless
> +of this variable. If you really want to use gpg2 version 2.0.x,
> +you need to \\[customize] this variable to \"gpg2\" (even if that
> +is its default value)."
I think this is essentially correct (I've read the code now, and this is
indeed what seems to be happening). But I think I'll rephrase it a bit
and say something about how this variable is just a mild preference
unless actually customized.
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