only document --faked-system-time for gpg 2.1 and later
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	dkg
	Aug 4 2017, 6:23 PM

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the man page for gpg from 1.4 documents --faked-system-time but it is not implemented.

A patch was proposed back in 2014, but never applied.

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External Link: https://bugs.debian.org/760354

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	rGeb15d5ed8e4a doc: Remove documentation for future option --faked-system-time.

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dkg created this task.Aug 4 2017, 6:23 PM

• werner triaged this task as Normal priority.Aug 4 2017, 6:51 PM

marcus added a commit: rGeb15d5ed8e4a: doc: Remove documentation for future option --faked-system-time..Aug 4 2017, 8:26 PM

I just removed the paragraph (gpgtwoone is not used anymore anyways). Fixed in eb15d5ed8.

fwiw, faked-system-time is used in several non-gnupg packages in debian already.

some of it is for gpgsm (where this is still a documented interface), but others are using it with gpg itself.

i'm not sure i understand why we'd want to remove this feature, since it's clearly useful enough for people who are trying to use gpg.

I only removed the documentation in the STABLE-BRANCH-1-4. Nobody said we want to remove this feature, and it is still documented in STABLE-BRANCH-2-0 and master.

ah, great! sorry i got confused :)

No worries :)