Bug 28865

Summary:	perl-GnuPG ; New Package Request
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Xuo <xuoy>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	Perl Stack Maintainers <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, ouaurelien, xuoy
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	Mageia 9
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Xuo 2021-05-01 19:00:47 CEST

Hi,

The perl-GnuPG package is no more available under Mageia8.
Is it possible to add it again (it was available in Mageia7) ?
It is possible that the perl-crypt package does more or less the same, but it is not 100% compatible with perl-GnuPG commands.

Step to reproduce :
In a Perl script, add the line :
use GnuPG qw( :algo ) ;

Workaround : install perl-GnuPG-0.190.0-8.mga7.noarch.rpm

Regards.

Xuo.

Comment 1 Aurelien Oudelet 2021-05-03 15:48:25 CEST

Hi, thanks reporting this.

Assigning.
@tv, can we eventually backport it to Mageia 8?
Unsure why it was dropped.

On a voluntary basis, one of the packagers might, if there are no license or other legal issues, want to integrate it to the distribution and maintain it for bug and security fixes.

Severity: minor => enhancement
CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Summary: I'd like the perl-GnuPG package to be added to the Mageia8 distribution. => perl-GnuPG ; New Package Request
Version: 8 => Cauldron
Assignee: bugsquad => perl
Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 9

Comment 2 Xuo 2021-10-03 19:12:23 CEST

Hi,

Any news on that topic ? 
I've installed the package perl-GnuPG-0.190.0-8.mga7.noarch.rpm but it seems to be removed by task-obsolete-xxx.mga8.noarch.
So each time I need to use the perl-GnuPG package, I need to remove first the task-obsolete one and re-install the perl-GnuPG-0.190.0-8.mga7.noarch.rpm one.

Regards.

Xuo.

CC: (none) => xuoy

Comment 3 Xuo 2022-01-01 10:59:25 CET

Hi,

Any news on that topic ? Could you add perl-GnuPG back into Mageia8 ? Or tell me how to use gpg in a Perl script without this package ?

Regards.

Xuo.

Comment 4 sturmvogel 2022-05-22 15:23:17 CEST

This package was obsoleted with MGA7. Pterjan reported on the Dev mailing list that there were build failures. Additional this package is dead upstream and completely unmaintained since 2012. All linux distributions (except Altlinux and PCLinuxOS) dropped this dead package.

Closing as WONTFIX.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX

Comment 5 Xuo 2022-05-22 20:47:36 CEST

Hi,

Ok. I've understood.
So, my next question is : what is the package that will allow the possibility to  Perl to call gnuPG commands ?
Is there a replacement package ? Should I "cpan" some specific Perl modules each time a new Mageia version is provided ?

Thanks.

Xuo.

Comment 6 Dave Hodgins 2022-05-22 21:14:52 CEST

$ urpmq -i perl-Crypt-GPG
Name        : perl-Crypt-GPG
Version     : 1.640.0
Release     : 3.mga8
Group       : Development/Perl
Size        : 61595                        Architecture: noarch
Source RPM  : perl-Crypt-GPG-1.640.0-3.mga8.src.rpm
URL         : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Crypt-GPG/
Summary     : A Perl Object Oriented Interface to GnuPG
Description :
This is Crypt::PGP, a Perl Object Oriented Interface to GnuPG

Found using
$ urpmq -y perl|grep -i gpg
perl-Crypt-GPG

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 7 Xuo 2022-05-24 20:08:12 CEST

Thank you.

Xuo.