[pkg-gnupg-maint] Changes for GnuPG in debian

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Wed 2016-08-10 08:39:02 -0400, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 11:07:25AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> We have no plans to remove gnupg1 from the archive any time soon, so
>> don't worry!  But even if we did, can you explain what you'd want done,
>> and why?
>> 
>> gnupg2 is a separate upstream software package, with its own debian
>> changelog.  
>
> Yes but as far as users are concerned this is the same /usr/bin/gpg
> command.

ok, i see this, but...

>> why would importing the gnupg1 debian changelog into that
>> package be useful?  and where would we put it?
>
> Because it documents the change to the /usr/bin/gpg command.
> You could put it as /usr/share/doc/gnupg/changelog-1.Debian.gz

For a user who doesn't know that there was such a transition, they won't
know to look there.  apt-list-changes won't show it automatically, for
example.

For a user who does know that there was such a transition, they probably
already know they can find the older changelog in
/usr/share/doc/gnupg1/changelog.Debian.gz.  So i'm not really sure what
this gains us besides an extra 19KiB in the gnupg2 package.

I note that there is a mention of the transition in
/usr/share/doc/gnupg/NEWS.Debian.gz, though maybe the text there could
be improved.  Maybe something like:

  Before version 2.1.14, gnupg was provided by the GnuPG "classic"
  branch.  You can find the historical changelogs for that branch in
  /usr/share/doc/gnupg1/changelog.Debian.gz.

I could also provide a symlink from
/usr/share/doc/gnupg/changelog-1.Debian.gz to
/usr/share/doc/gnupg1/changelog.Debian.gz, if you think that would be
useful.  I'm just reluctant to add another 19KiB to the package when i
know the info is already available elsewhere and i'm not sure who will
gain from it.

I just read NEWS.Debian.gz, btw, and noticed that it was referring to
/usr/share/doc/gnupg/README.Debian, which i'd somehow failed to ship
properly.  That should be resolved in the next upload, which will
include commit d8ce1e81226f8ff454c7c6be7ec9ddb763c62e34.  Thanks for
helping me find that!

Regards,

        --dkg
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