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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: OpenPGP Versus GnuPG
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 01:28:47 -0000 (UTC)
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It seems the developers of GnuPG are starting to diverge from the OpenPGP 
standard, and go their own, incompatible way. I got notes about this from 
the last few upgrades of my Debian Unstable systems, and so searching 
about online led me (yet again) to the ever-dependable ArchLinux Wiki
<https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GnuPG>, which has a section on “OpenPGP 
compatibility”, with links to more details about the schism.

So the Debian folks seem reluctant to go along with this, and they’re not 
the only ones.