installing gnupg 2.2 as "gpg", vs coexistence with gpg 1.4

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Tue Oct 10 08:49:47 CEST 2017


On Mon,  9 Oct 2017 16:28, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:

> I'm not saying there are no cases where GnuPG's "classic" model could
> possibly be useful; but i'm saying that asking upstream to maintain two
> divergent branches indefinitely may not be the best use of the

Right.  However, I promised to keep on maintaining 1.4 so that it can be
used on some uncommon platforms and also to decrypt old files.

Let's track this as https://dev.gnupg.org/T3443


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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