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From: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
To: Peter Lebbing <peter@digitalbrains.com>
Cc: "Bernhard E. Reiter" <bernhard.reiter@intevation.de>,
	"Michael J Gruber" <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	gnupg-devel@gnupg.org,
	"Lukas Puehringer" <luk.puehringer@gmail.com>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Stable GnuPG interface, git should use GPGME
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 07:52:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvcco57j.fsf@wheatstone.g10code.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bec6098f-3016-0a41-02b0-a4e541a66bc4@digitalbrains.com> (Peter Lebbing's message of "Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:46:28 +0100")

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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

-- 
Die Gedanken sind frei.  Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-23  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-10 10:00 Stable GnuPG interface, git should use GPGME Bernhard E. Reiter
2017-03-10 14:23 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-13 10:14   ` Michael J Gruber
2017-03-13 12:49     ` Bernhard E. Reiter
2017-03-14 10:39       ` Michael J Gruber
2017-03-17  9:56         ` Bernhard E. Reiter
2017-03-22 17:15           ` Werner Koch
2017-03-22 18:46             ` Peter Lebbing
2017-03-23  6:52               ` Werner Koch [this message]
2017-03-23  7:29             ` Bernhard E. Reiter
2017-03-23 10:56               ` Werner Koch
2017-03-13 10:30   ` Bernhard Reiter
2017-03-10 18:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-10 20:26   ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-03-13 11:14   ` Bernhard E. Reiter
2017-03-13 12:53     ` Jeff King
2017-03-11  0:10 ` brian m. carlson
2017-03-13 12:29   ` Bernhard E. Reiter
2017-03-13 19:48   ` Christian Neukirchen

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