Fedora: nautilus-dropbox uses obsolete python-gpg - should be python2-gpg about nautilus-dropbox HOT 3 CLOSED

From a quick scan of fedora's python2-gpg package, it looks equivalent to python-gpg on Ubuntu/Debian, so the code will look the same.

We could change the rpm to suggest "python2-gpg" instead of "pygpgme", but that would fail on Fedora 21 (which is an issue because we currently build a single package for the oldest distro version we support and distribute that for all the versions, e.g. the Fedora 21 package is also used for Fedora 26).

Until we get the bandwidth to fix our build process to build multiple versions, my feeling is that it's better to use the obsolete package until Fedora removes it. What do you think?

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Thanks, I agree it makes sense to stay with the obsolete package given the build restrictions.

So if I understand correctly the answer is for those of us on Fedora 27+ is to simply install python2-gpg to enable the missing functionality. I've tested that on F29 and it works so I'm happy.

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Yup, installing either python2-gpg or pygpgme will work on Fedora (at least until they get rid of pygpgme). :)

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