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    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.misc on Mon Jun 23 01:28:47 2025
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    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@jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid to comp.misc on Tue Jun 24 01:42:50 2025
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    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> 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.
    --
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    - Paraphrasing Star Wars
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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.misc on Tue Jun 24 03:14:04 2025
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    On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 01:42:50 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> 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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