Re: Debian GPG Key maintainence?
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:56:31PM +0000, Steve Kemp <debian-devel@steve.org.uk> was heard to say:
> Recently I became a member of the Debian project, with
> a particular email address - one that I've been exclusively
> using since around 1996.
>
> Due to a variety of circumstances I've now stopped using
> that - although I can still read the mail delivered there.
You might want to use your @debian.org address for Debian activities.
You can configure it via db.debian.org to forward to your new address,
and if your address changes again in the future, just change the
forwarding.
> What's the best way to start using the new address with
> my Debian duties? Presumably I should create a new key
> and sign it with the old one.
>
> If that's uploaded to keyservers is that sufficient, or
> do I need my keyring entry updated? Something that seems
> to take "a while".
I believe you can just add identities with gpg --edit-key. My gpg key
existed before my debian.org address, but as you can see both my current
address and my previous (now nonfunctional) one are included on the key:
torrent:~> gpg -v --list-keys CEE44978
pub 1024D/CEE44978 1998-09-19 Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
sig 3 CEE44978 2001-02-10 Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
uid Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>
sig CEE44978 1998-09-19 Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
sig FE61E079 2000-08-21 Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu>
sub 2048g/311828CF 1998-09-19
sig CEE44978 1998-09-19 Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
It's been a while since I did that, so I don't remember the exact
procedure.
You also should re-upload all your packages with whatever new
address you use, so systems like bugs.debian.org know about the address
change.
Daniel
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