Where did gpg.anondist-orig go?

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I used to use this specific binary, /usr/bin/gpg.anondist-orig in my scripts. But now I realized that it’s no longer under /usr/bin/ directory. Where did it go? When did it go? I am annoyed at this breaking change.

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root           root       33 2026-05-13 07:59 gpg -> /usr/bin/qubes-gpg-client-wrapper
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root           root     445k 2026-03-08 15:33 gpg-agent
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root           root     139k 2026-03-08 15:33 gpg-connect-agent
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root           root      947 2015-10-21  2015 gpg-dearmor
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root           root      312 2015-10-21  2015 gpg.anondist
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root           root       26 2026-05-13 07:59 gpg2 -> /usr/bin/gpg.anondist-orig
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root           root      339 2015-10-21  2015 gpg2.anondist
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root           root     168k 2026-03-08 15:33 gpgconf

I used to be able to use gpg binary for split-gpg and gpg2 binary for local gpg operations.

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It conflicted with porting from GnuPG to Sequoia-PGP. gpg-from-sq attempts to divert the gpg binary, which uwt was already diverting. The uwt wrapper was considered to be of lower value than the security benefits of Sequoia-PGP, and was therefore removed so that gpg-from-sq can be installed by default in a later version of Whonix. (We can’t add it to this version of Whonix yet without potentially breaking people’s systems if they haven’t updated in a while.)

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Related:

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@arraybolt3, @Patrick: alright. I switched my scripts to not rely on
the existence of gpg.anondist-orig binary.

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