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Latest revision as of 22:41, 4 December 2018
GnuPG 2 as default GPG implementation
Summary
The /usr/bin/gpg path representing the main GPG implementation will now use GnuPG 2 instead of GnuPG 1.
Owner
- Name: Igor Gnatenko, Till Maas, Neal Gompa
- Email: ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org, opensource@till.name, ngompa13@gmail.com
- Release notes owner:
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 30
- Last updated: 2018-12-04
- Tracker bug: #1656206
- Release Notes tracker: #266
Detailed Description
For long time, GnuPG 2 is de-facto standard and it is unfortunate to have /usr/bin/gpg to point to GnuPG 1 given that all major repositories already have it that way. Some of them don't even have GnuPG 1 shipped (RHEL is one example).
Benefit to Fedora
This change will bring Fedora in line with other major distributions, users will get consistent experience between distributions and the naive expectation that "gpg" binary is the latest and greatest implementation of GnuPG.
Scope
- Proposal owners:
- Rename gnupg package to gnupg1
- Rename gpg binary to gpg1
- Rename gpg2 binary to gpg
- Create gpg2 → gpg symlink
- Check and fix if needed existing packages which require /usr/bin/gpg
- Other developers: Everything can be handled by change owners.
- Release engineering: #7920 (a check of an impact with Release Engineering is needed)
- List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Policies and guidelines: No changes are needed.
- Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
Upgrade/compatibility impact
Users will have to adapt to change that gpg is now called gpg1 if their usage is not compatible with both 1.x and 2.x.
How To Test
Before change is implemented, owners will prepare COPR repository. You will need to enable it and update and ensure that your applications/scripts still work.
User Experience
- /usr/bin/gpg is pointing to latest release of GnuPG 2 which makes consistent user experience between distributions
Dependencies
What can't be adopted to this change will be patched to use gpg1 explicitly, no action is needed from any developers.
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: Owners will revert changes and postpone change to next release.
- Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze.
- Blocks release? No
- Blocks product? No
Documentation
Both gpg1 and gpg2 have their own documentation shipped with them.