Re: [PATCH 1/1] skip RFC1991 tests with gnupg 2.1.x

Christian Hesse schrieb am 12.12.2014 um 10:54:

Christian Hesse [off-list ref] on Fri, 2014/12/12 09:35:

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Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] on Thu, 2014/12/11 15:10:

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Christian Hesse [off-list ref] writes:
  

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However... Even if GnuPG 2.2.x (or whatever future release) will become
next stable: It will not reintroduce support for rfc1991.  

How certain are we about the deprecation?  

The sixth beta of GnuPG [0] had this change:

 * gpg: Removed the option --pgp2 and --rfc1991 and the ability to
   create PGP-2 compatible messages.

This is the corresponding commit:

http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=commit;h=2b8d8369d59249b89526c18c5ac276e6445dc35e

So, in fact, gpg2.1 removes support for creating pgp2 (rfc1991)
signatures only. That is: We could put an armor exported signature
into our test suite, test verification against that signature,
and restrict the test for creation of that signature by gpg version (or
skip it completely).

Michael