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

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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Dec 12, 2014, 16:00 UTC
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Christian Hesse schrieb am 12.12.2014 um 10:54:
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> Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de> on Fri, 2014/12/12 09:35:
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> on Thu, 2014/12/11 15:10:
>>> Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de> writes:
>>>   
>>>> 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
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  1. 1/1 skip RFC1991 tests with gnupg 2.1.xChristian Hesse, Dec 11, 2014
  2. Torsten BögershausenDec 11, 2014
  3. Michael J GruberDec 11, 2014
  4. Christian HesseDec 11, 2014
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 11, 2014
  6. Christian HesseDec 12, 2014
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