Re: F45 Change Proposal: Sequoia opengpgverify (self-contained)

Neal Gompa <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:12:22 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 12:03 PM Peter Pentchev <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 11:50:01AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> [snip]
> > And calling it %openpgpverify is just nonsense. *If* I were to accept
> > a rename of the macro, I would *only* reasonably consider %pgpverify,
> > since that's the name of the format.
>
> Um. No?
>
> PGP was the name of a specific implementation that, at some point,
> became commercial and trademark-protected. Also, it was PGP Inc.
> themselves that proposed the OpenPGP name for the standard :)
>
> The standard itself has always been called OpenPGP.
>

Sure, but that's not the name of the *format*. It's still PGP. OpenPGP
is the standard that describes the PGP format. Anyway, that detail
doesn't matter for my larger point.


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