Re: Killing gpg1

On Sun, 06 Sep 2020 00:02:38 +0200
Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <jca@openbsd.org>:

> On Sat, Sep 05 2020, Solène Rapenne <solene@perso.pw> wrote:
> > Le 2020-09-05 13:25, Edd Barrett a écrit :
> >> Hi all,
> >> We've been talking about trying to remove security/gnupg (i.e. gpg
> >> version 1) for some time, and the recent plist clash has given me the
> >> kick up the butt I needed to look more seriously at this.
> >> Below is a list of things that still depend upon gpg1, by maintainer,
> >> as
> >> determined by:
> >> select fullpkgpath from ports where build_depends glob
> >> '*security/gnupg[^2]*' or run_depends glob '*security/gnupg[^2]*'
> >> order by maintainer;
> >> Let's see if we can move these to gpg2. I'll start by working my way
> >> through the ports with no maintainer. I'd appreciate it if maintainers
> >> could help out with their ports.
> >> solene@:
> >> mail/mailpile
> >
> > It seems mailpile isn't going to support gpg2 before some time.
> > https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile/issues/1133
>
> Well there is
> https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile/commit/a01e9c5107cc30dce14c357e71b8d9f50badce55
>
> Looking at mailpile/crypto/gpgi.py in the current port, support for
> gnupg2 seems available.
>
> > The development has slowed in the last years, maybe we should remove
> > mailpile from ports, the project doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
>
> Valid concern IMO.
>

mail/mailpile works with gnupg2 given you start it with this:

env MAILPILE_GNUPG="/usr/local/bin/gpg2" mp

When you start mailpile without "gpg" binary in $PATH, you get this
message:

> Required binary missing or unusable: GnuPG not found
> If you know where it is, or would like to skip this test and run Mailpile
> anyway, you can set one of the following environment variables:
> MAILPILE_GNUPG="/path/to/binary"
> or
> MAILPILE_IGNORE_BINARIES="GnuPG"
> Note that skipping a binary check may cause the app to become unstable or
> fail in unexpected ways. If it breaks you get to keep both pieces!


Not sure what to do about this port.