Debian Bug report logs - #237370
ITA: pgp5i -- Public key encryption system (international version)

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: O: pgp5i -- Public key encryption system (International version)

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:44:04 +0100

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2004-03-11
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the pgp5i package.
The package description is:
 Pretty Good Privacy is general-purpose public key encryption
 system written by Philip Zimmerman.  It is often used in email
 conversations where confidentiality and integrity are important.
 .
 This is version 5.0i, and has significant changes compared to
 2.6.3a. You may want to consider keeping the old version handy.
 Please familiarize with pgp before using it for real, or you
 will loose any security you might have gained.
 .
 This version of PGP is the `International' version from Stale
 Schumacher.  It is somewhat faster, and has more useful features.
 However, it does not have a license for its use of the RSA
 cryptosystem, on which some nasty people claim a patent.

I am no longer using this package, since it is non-free and I am using
gpg. Upstream does not maintain the package anymore. If nobody else is
needing it, it could be dropped completely.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux woodstock 2.4.24 #1 SMP Tue Feb 10 09:23:03 MET 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1

Message #10 received at 237370@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Beckwith <ianb@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>

To: control@bugs.debian.org, 237370@bugs.debian.org

Subject: ITA: pgp5i -- Public key encryption system (international version)

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:18:48 +0000

retitle 237370 ITA: pgp5i -- Public key encryption system (international version)
thanks

Preliminary packages will appear at:

http://nessie.mcc.ac.uk/~ianb/debian/

Ian.

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Message #17 received at 237370@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: Ian Beckwith <ianb@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>

Cc: 237370@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: ITA: pgp5i -- Public key encryption system (international version)

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:45:37 +0100

* Ian Beckwith <ianb@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> [2004-03-23 17:18]:
> retitle 237370 ITA: pgp5i -- Public key encryption system (international version)
> thanks
> 
> Preliminary packages will appear at:

Do you still intend to adopt this package and what's the status?  Do
we really need this package?
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com

Message #22 received at 237370@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Beckwith <ianb@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>

To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

Cc: 237370@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: ITA: pgp5i -- Public key encryption system (international version)

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:54:39 +0100

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:45:37AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Ian Beckwith <ianb@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> [2004-03-23 17:18]:
> > retitle 237370 ITA: pgp5i -- Public key encryption system (international version)

> Do you still intend to adopt this package and what's the status?  Do
> we really need this package?

Whoops, this had kind of slipped down my todo list.

I've fixed a couple of FTBFS issues, but not really addressed the
long-standing bugs in the BTS.

I'll upload preliminary packages to

http://nessie.mcc.ac.uk/~ianb/debian/

in the next few days.

As for whether we still need the package, I'm not sure.  

The previous maintainer suspected it's not really used any more, and
said it is long-dead upstream.  I was planning to put a note in
README.Debian asking for feedback from people still using it.

I don't mind keeping an eye on it for the foreseeable future (although
I'll have to find a sponsor), but if you feel it is not worth keeping,
by all means remove it from debian.

Ian.

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Message #27 received at 237370@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Beckwith <ianb@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>

To: tbm@cyrius.com, 237370@bugs.debian.org

Subject: pgp5i

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 20:05:07 +0100

After asking on debian-security, it appears that there is still a
demand for pgp in debian. Although gpg provides a superset of
features, it doesn't have IDEA support compiled in (it is
patent-encumbered) but pgp, as it is non-US/non-free, can still
support IDEA.

Packages of pgp5i are at

http://nessie.mcc.ac.uk/~ianb/debian/

I will attempt to find a sponsor to get a version with FTBFS fixes
into sarge, and then post-sarge upgrade the package to 6.5.8 and
rename it to pgpi.

Ian.

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Message #32 received at 237370@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>

To: Ian Beckwith <ianb@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>

Cc: tbm@cyrius.com, 237370@bugs.debian.org, debian-release@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: pgp5i

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:06:58 +0200

On Aug 06, Ian Beckwith <ianb@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> wrote:

> After asking on debian-security, it appears that there is still a
> demand for pgp in debian. Although gpg provides a superset of
> features, it doesn't have IDEA support compiled in (it is
> patent-encumbered) but pgp, as it is non-US/non-free, can still
> support IDEA.
Can you explain what is pgp5 able to do which gnupg and the IDEA plugin
do not support?

-- 
ciao, |
Marco | [8251 opBM/QuB2q.Jo]

Message #37 received at 237370@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Beckwith <ianb@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>

To: 237370@bugs.debian.org, debian-release@lists.debian.org, tbm@cyrius.com

Subject: Re: pgp5i

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:32:14 +0100

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 03:06:58PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Can you explain what is pgp5 able to do which gnupg and the IDEA plugin
> do not support?

In theory, nothing. Some people on debian-security thought gpg had
problems with some keys, but couldn't cite anything concrete.

However, people are using pgp, and one user mailed me to thank me for
maintaining it, so I'm happy to keep maintaining it (at least once the
non-US/non-free queue is fixed).

Ian.

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Message #44 received at 237370-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: 237370-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: not in Debian anymore

Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:36:43 +0100

non-US is no longer part of Debian so this package has disappeared.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

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