From the announcement: <snip> This release merely fixes a few minor bugs and updates a few translations. It will be the last regular release of the 1.2.x series as this series will enter *end of life status on January 1, 2005*, after which it will only be updated for security critical bugs. Please use the stable 1.4.x series of GnuPG unless you have good reasons to keep on using 1.2.x. [..] What's New =========== Here is a list of major user visible changes since 1.2.6: * New "pgpgroup-to-gpggroup" script (in the tools directory) to convert from PGP 6 group syntax to GnuPG group syntax. * Translation update and minor bug fixes. [..] c8e47066e5bb61d74f4001b51117bf3a56a7dd3b gnupg-1.2.7.tar.bz2 010f8b48bccea11831be316fe802eb0e43f4fcc3 gnupg-1.2.7.tar.gz e2bf91f93b7292cb6aac5eb5acccceb623bc1652 gnupg-1.2.6-1.2.7.diff.gz </snip>
1.4.0 is currently added and masked. Please add it to /etc/portage/package.unmask and report any bugs. If it all checks out ok I'll unmask it and we won't need 1.2.7.
Ok. I will upgrade to 1.4. If 1.2.x will stay in portage (for the case that somebody does not want to upgrade), 1.2.7 should go in anyway. If 1.2.x will disappear shortly from the tree, you could wontfix this bug.
gnupg-1.4.0 is currently unmasked. Still has unstable keywords - Hope its working for you.
going to mark as "won't fix" until (if) gnupg-1.4.0 falls in a big ditch and becomes unworkable.
