Fails when compiling
Werner Koch
wk at gnupg.org
Sun Oct 3 19:18:20 CEST 2004
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:23:25 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann said:
> You can either make an alternative GPGME package that is configured to
> use gpg2, or you can manage gpg via alternatives in Debian (the latter
> looks to me like the better solution).
FWIW, I guess that we need at least 6 more months to get gpg2 as
matured as gpg 1.3.90. In the meantime there is not much point in
having a gpg2 package.
Some notes on terminology:
GnuPG (or gnupg)
is the entire gnupg package consisting of just the gpg utility in
package versions < 1.9 and all the tools (gpg2, gpgsm, gpg-agent,
scdaemon) in later versions.
gpg
is the well known OpenPGP utility. In versions 1.9 it gets
installed as gpg2, though.
gpgsm
is the newer CMS/X.509 (S/MIME) counterpart of gpg utility. It is
independent of gpg but provides a similar functionality.
gpg-agent
is part of gnupg > 1.9 but may als be used with any current gpg
versions (1.2.6, 1.3.90, gpg2 1.9.11).
Shalom-Salam,
Werner
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