package description is wrong
Bug #315513 reported by
Jan
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gnupg2 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnupg2
The package description contains the following sentence: "GnuPG does not use any patented algorithms so it cannot be compatible with PGP2 because it uses IDEA (which is patented worldwide). "
While it is true that GnuPG is not compatible to PGP2 because it does not use IDEA, it is not true that IDEA is (still) patented. The patent of IDEA was expired some time ago. I propose to remove the sentence at all because PGP2 has no relevance anymore. Also this is true for translations of the text.
| Changed in gnupg2 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| tags: | added: bitesize |
Revision history for this message
| Joshua Anderson (joshua-anderson) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in gnupg2 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
| Changed in gnupg2 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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This has been resolved upstream in Debian gnupg2 v2.0.22-2