Package: gnupg2
Version: 2.0.9-3
Severity: normal
Reading the description [1] does not shed light what is different in
'gnupg2' in contrast to 'gnupg'- Only after visiting the site there is
some light:
http://www.gnupg.org/download/
"GnuPG 2.0 is the new modularized version of GnuPG supporting OpenPGP and
S/MIME"
SUGGESTION
Please rephrase the Description to read (marked "!" amd "+" lines):
!Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement (new v2.x)
GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage.
It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures.
It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant
with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440.
.
+GnuPG 2.x is the new modularized version of GnuPG supporting OpenPGP
+and S/MIME"
.
GnuPG does not use any patented algorithms so it cannot be compatible
with PGP2 because it uses IDEA (which is patented worldwide).
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[1]
$ diff -u <(apt-cache show gnupg) <(apt-cache show gnupg2) | grep -vEi
'^.(sha|size|filename|Tag)|Architecture|Installed|Priority|Package|MD5sum|Version|Homepage|Depends'
--- /dev/fd/63 2008-08-24 15:44:32.547491870 +0300
+++ /dev/fd/62 2008-08-24 15:44:32.551489569 +0300
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
Section: utils
-Maintainer: Debian GnuPG-Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+Maintainer: Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-Recommends: libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7)
-Suggests: gnupg-doc, xloadimage | imagemagick | eog, libpcsclite1
-Conflicts: seahorse (<< 2.22.2-2)
+Recommends: libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7), gnupg-agent
+Suggests: gnupg-doc, xloadimage
+Conflicts: gpg-idea (<= 2.2)
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage.
It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures.
@@ -22,6 +22,6 @@
.
GnuPG does not use any patented algorithms so it cannot be compatible
with PGP2 because it uses IDEA (which is patented worldwide).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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