FS#43436 - [gnupg] gpgsplit missing

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by abc (Xiflite) - Tuesday, 13 January 2015, 18:47 GMT
Last edited by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Sunday, 18 January 2015, 22:06 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The gpgsplit tool is missing from this package(?).

It is located in tools/gpgsplit.c in the source tarball.

Package version:
2.1.1-1
This task depends upon

Closed by  Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Sunday, 18 January 2015, 22:06 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Saturday, 17 January 2015, 20:08 GMT
Why is it not compiled and installed by default?
Comment by abc (Xiflite) - Saturday, 17 January 2015, 21:27 GMT
Don't know. I just searched for it and stumbled over the debian and ubuntu gnupg packages that include gpgsplit e.g. http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty-updates/amd64/gnupg/filelist
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Saturday, 17 January 2015, 22:26 GMT
In the gnupg-2.1.1 source tarball, the file tools/Makefile.am goes:

if !HAVE_W32CE_SYSTEM
bin_PROGRAMS += gpgkey2ssh ${gpgtar}
endif

and then later

if !HAVE_W32CE_SYSTEM
noinst_PROGRAMS = clean-sat mk-tdata make-dns-cert gpgsplit
endif

So apparently gpgtar deserved to be installed on non-Windows systems but not gpgsplit. Could you explain why we would want to install gpgsplit on Linux systems? Better yet, could you ask upstream to do this by default?
Comment by abc (Xiflite) - Saturday, 17 January 2015, 23:33 GMT
gpgsplit is needed to devide a gpg packet into all its parts. I do not think we need it on every linux system, but it is quite helpful and if we do not integrate into the gnupg package we may create a gnupg-tools package to provide this tools.
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Sunday, 18 January 2015, 22:06 GMT
In our official package I am reluctant to bundle binaries that upstream choses not to install by default. However, you are of course free to make a gnupg-tools package and submit it to the AUR.

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