OpenPGP Versus GnuPG
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.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 01:31:03PM +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro 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.
Debian has quite a bit of infrastructure that depends on compatibility with the OpenPGP standard. I get the impression that embracing a new standard would mean updating a large amount of their development infrastructure. Cheers, Michael.
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Michael Cree