Re: GnuPG in Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> I do not think that we should override upstream's decision to call these
> executables by a different name.

+1

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> Apart from the issue that raised above, another issue is that one cannot
> currently use "guix package -u" if one prefers to use gnupg 1.4.x,
> because it will always try to update to 2.0.x, and soon it will try to
> upgrade all of us to 2.1.x, which not everyone will want (at least not
> right away) because it brings new incompatible changes.

This is a different issue, but yes, maybe the “old” one should have its
name changed to “gnupg1”.  What do people think?

Thanks,
Ludo’.