[Pkg-gnupg-maint] RFC: Moving gpg to /bin?

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

On Thu, September 3, 2009 11:58, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking about moving gpg to /bin to solve bugs #386980 and #477671.
> But this might break scripts and executables, which hardcoded gpg (e.g.
> dput). So what to do? Create a symlink
>
> /usr/bin/gpg -> /bin/gpg
>
> as a workaround and file bugs against all packages, which hard-coded the
> path? Or ship the symlink for the next two releases?

I would before doing this put the question to a wider audience, e.g.
debian-devel. Adding more to /bin/ may have consequences e.g. in the
installer or other areas that we don't know about. Better check this to be
sure. You can put the message to d-d and we can meanwhile upload 1.4.10-1.
Once this has migrated to testing we may upload a new version if there's
been no objections to the proposal (that's around two weeks which should
be enough opportunity to comment).


cheers,
Thijs