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Re: About new fields in debian/control for bug reporting.



Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:

> However, this also raises another issue I have been thinking of.
> Suppose that I sign the source code of my random package (eg ssh with
> Kerberos support compiled in), so it can be freely distributed in a
> secure way. Then someone uploads the code (without my knowledge) to
> one of the upload queues (I believe you can still do that
> anonymously). Next thing, everyone is complaining to the ssh
> maintainer that it wont install without Kerberos...

>From the ftp-server side this looks exactly like you NMUing the
package, doesn't it?

I think the solution is to use another key (that is not in the
debian-keyring) to sign stuff that should stay inofficial.

-- 
Robbe

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