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RFC 4880 compliance
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In g10/textfilter.c a break with RFC 4880 compliance is outlined:

So, we default to the 2440 behavior, but use the 2440bis-12 behavior if the user specifies --no-rfc2440-text. The default will be changed at some point in the future when the mail clients have been upgraded.

Is this option and default behaviour still required?

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Version
2.2.8

Event Timeline

werner triaged this task as Normal priority.Jun 24 2018, 9:50 PM
werner edited projects, added OpenPGP; removed Bug Report.

It was rG07250279e7ec: * keyedit.c (keyedit_menu): Invisible alias "passwd" as "password". in 2004, which set default to rfc2440-text behavior.
And in 2007, the commit rGb550330067b6: * gpg.c (main): Disable --rfc2440-text and --force-v3-sigs by default. changed the default to no-rfc2440-text.

The option might still make sense, but the comment is now not accurate (requires the knowledge of history to understand).