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    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 23 01:28:47 2025
    It seems the developers of GnuPG are starting to diverge from the OpenPGP standard, and go their own, incompatible way. I got notes about this from
    the last few upgrades of my Debian Unstable systems, and so searching
    about online led me (yet again) to the ever-dependable ArchLinux Wiki <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GnuPG>, which has a section on “OpenPGP compatibility”, with links to more details about the schism.

    So the Debian folks seem reluctant to go along with this, and they’re not
    the only ones.

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  • From John McCue@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Tue Jun 24 01:42:50 2025
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:
    It seems the developers of GnuPG are starting to diverge from the OpenPGP standard, and go their own, incompatible way. I got notes about this from
    the last few upgrades of my Debian Unstable systems, and so searching
    about online led me (yet again) to the ever-dependable ArchLinux Wiki <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GnuPG>, which has a section on “OpenPGP compatibility”, with links to more details about the schism.

    So the Debian folks seem reluctant to go along with this, and they’re not the only ones.

    I wonder how many people is still on OpenPGP ? *BSD and
    Linux both use GnuPG. Also Thunderbird rolled their own
    a few years ago, AFAIK Thunderbird lets you import GnuPG
    keys into their version.

    --
    [t]csh(1) - "An elegant shell, for a more... civilized age."
    - Paraphrasing Star Wars

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to John McCue on Tue Jun 24 03:14:04 2025
    On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 01:42:50 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:

    So the Debian folks seem reluctant to go along with this, and they’re
    not the only ones.

    I wonder how many people is still on OpenPGP ? *BSD and Linux both use GnuPG.

    Debian don’t seem to want to deviate from the OpenPGP standard.

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