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Re: Stable GnuPG interface, git should use GPGME

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WKWerner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
Date
Mar 23, 2017, 06:52 UTC
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:46, peter@digitalbrains.com said:
> under the impression you are actually answering the question "can GPGME
> be used in the same way regardless of the GnuPG version" instead?
Right.
> 3) is because GnuPG 1.4 cannot update a secret key at all. Adding a new
> subkey fails with:

Indeed, I was not anymore aware of this limitation in versions < 2.1. There are even more conflicts when PGP-2 keys (to me the only valid reason to use gpg1 along with gpg2) or ECC keys need to be considered.

Shalom-Salam,
   Werner
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