GnuPG 2.1.0 "modern" released

Okay, okay,

what we see here is the usual problem of practical cryptography: We have to find some middle ground between those who use the software for every days purpose and the more paranoid geeks, known crypto gurus, and policy requirements. That is not easy and with my pragmatic user hat on I agree to your concerns. OTOH, I have to defend the use of such "insecure" practise from the complains of the latter group. See for example https://bugs.debian.org/739424 .

Instead of trying to fix flaws related to the use of PGP-2 keys, 2.1.0 simply kicks out all support and I feel now much safer not to keep on maintaining all these little workarounds for PGP-2.

To say it with Rick: We always have 1.4.