2013-10-04

akuchling: Sherlock Hemlock (Default)
2013-10-04 08:31 pm
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More GnuPG FAQ additions

About two weeks ago, I had another spasm of activity and wrote a bunch of new entries for the GPG FAQ, both filling in entries that were blank and adding a few that I thought were a good idea. Happily the maintainer accepted my pull request.

The next step will be to request that the new FAQ be posted and replace the outdated FAQ.
akuchling: Sherlock Hemlock (Default)
2013-10-04 08:33 pm

GNU Privacy Handbook: found!

The master source for the GNU Privacy Handbook was kept in CVS, and the CVS server is no longer up. (GnuPG itself has moved to git, but its repository doesn't seem to contain the handbook.) I wrote the original author of the Handbook several weeks ago and again yesterday, but have gotten no reply.

Today I had a brainwave: the Debian-packaged version of the Handbook must include the original source! And the gnupg-doc Debian package page has a link to the package source. I've taken it and published a gph github repository, and set about trying to get the documentation to build on a more modern Linux distribution. (Autoconf and automake configurations don't age well.)