Break backwards compatibility

Mark Rousell markr at signal100.com
Tue May 22 03:25:44 CEST 2018


On 21/05/2018 08:53, Michael Kesper wrote:
> I think it might be best to put that functionality into a separate
> GnuPG version called gpg-legacy.
> Make it clear in all man pages of this tool, the --version and --help
> options that this only exists to decrypt existing but now obsolete
> encrypted material and that it can't be used to create such material
> anymore.

Seems reasonable to me, although does GnuPG 1.x already effectively
fulfil that role?


-- 
Mark Rousell

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