Hi Peter,

On 27/03/2021 21:11, Peter Müller wrote:
> Hello Adolf,
> hello development folks,
> 
> sorry for my tardy reply.
No problems. I know you have been and are very busy people.
> 
>> Is IPFire using the 1.4 Branch because there is some historic requirement for the older insecure keys.
> 
> (Assuming this was a question:) To my knowledge, we do not have key material in operation that would not
> be supported by GnuPG 2.x - the "classic" branch simply is more lightweight than the 2.x branch.
> 
> The last time I looked at this, GnuPG 2.x required some flavour of the "pinentry" helper for entering
> passphrases, and won't compile without. Since there is no manual interaction on a firewall, "pinentry"
> is useless, but I was unable to work out how to omit it in GnuPG 2.x .
Thanks for the heads up on this.
> 
> Things could have been changed, meanwhile. Perhaps this is now possible, so if you have some spare time
> to look at this, go ahead. :-)
I will give it a try. The worst that can happen is that I can't get it working and we stay with the status quo which is working currently.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance for your efforts - and all your patches of the last weeks.
> 
I am glad to help where I can.I know I can't help you with the real core stuff, my capabilities aren't sufficient but I can generally help with providing update patches on anything that I find has newer versions.

Regards,
Adolf

> Thanks, and best regards,
> Peter Müller
>