Re: Reverting PGG to v5-10 code base on the trunk

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 31 2007, Reiner Steib wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 31 2007, Reiner Steib wrote:
>>
>>> [Quoting added:]
>>>>> >  1. Reverting PGG in the Gnus trunk to the version in v5-10.
>>>>> >  1a. Fixing bugs caused by 1. and testing...
>>>>> >  2. Synch'ing Gnus in the Emacs CVS to the Gnus trunk.
>>>>> >  3. Including EasyPG to the Emacs CVS (not to the Gnus CVS).
>> [...]
>>>>> Getting through the copyright process may take quite a long time, so I
>>>>> don't think we should delay items 1, 1a and 2 while waiting for (or
>>>>> working on) 3.
> [...]
>> Would someone like to work on this?  I.e. compare v5-10/lisp/pgg*.el
>> with trunk/lisp/pgg*.el and sync the files (direction: v5-10 -->
>> trunk).  The use of `password.el' in the trunk might need some
>> attention.  I don't know what is the right thing to do there.  The
>> diff (cvs diff -u -r HEAD -r v5-10 pgg*.el) is only 13 hunks
>> (unrelated GPLv3 changes excluded), so it should be a feasible job.
>> Probably Daiki Ueno or Simon Josefsson are able to answer specific
>> questions.
>
> Simon, the code related to password.el in the trunk was added by you.
> Could you please comment if reverting those will cause problems?

I don't remember, sorry.  The code was added to clean up and improve the
password handling in PGG.  It may be that some features of password.el
were not available before.

> I have reverted PGG to the version in v5-10 now.  Please test and
> report problems.

I think that is the best approach.

/Simon