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g10: remove skeleton options files
authorDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Mon, 17 Apr 2017 14:51:55 +0000 (10:51 -0400)
committerDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:41:12 +0000 (21:41 +0100)
commitdf5253254feff32813b48708bc36ea825d4f025c
treed9f6922d1e29727e885cb670ee9d8ef41de9600d
parent7e6baac4abec207ae0995a39febb962cb757d468
g10: remove skeleton options files

* build-aux/speed/w32/inst.nsi: stop installing skeleton files.
* doc/gpg.texi: stop documenting skeleton files.
* g10/Makefile.am: stop installing skeleton files.
* g10/openfile.c (copy_options_file): Remove.
(try_make_homedir): do not call copy_options_file()

The defaults for gpg and dirmngr are good.  Both programs should work
fine for the simple case without any config file.  The skeleton config
files were being copied at first use (when the defaults are fine).
But when the user needs to fiddle with them (after they've become
sophisticated users), they're likely out of date because gpg has been
upgraded since then.  So they're used for documentation, but they're
stale documentation, which is probably worse than a clean empty file.

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GnuPG-bug-id: 3086
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Gbp-Pq: Topic skel-file-removal
Gbp-Pq: Name 0077-g10-remove-skeleton-options-files.patch
build-aux/speedo/w32/inst.nsi
doc/gpg.texi
g10/Makefile.am
g10/dirmngr-conf.skel [deleted file]
g10/openfile.c
g10/options.skel [deleted file]