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Re: verification of packages with gnupg/apt-key



On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 08:02 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:52:47PM +0100, Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote:
> > Has anyone anyone manage to make verification of packages/Release files
> > work under amd64?
> > 
> > Many thanks for any help
> 
> I was under the impression the majority of packages in debian were not
> signed, since no one has come up with a way for the buildd to sign a
> package using a package maintainers key (and I imagine no one should try
> either).  Perhaps the package maintainers could (maybe some already do,
> not sure) sign packages from the buildd when they are done, but I don't
> think that is the case at the moment.  Certainly I know debsigs just
> didn't work very well before given how many packages were not signed.

Why not give buildd its own user and gpg key, kept up-to-date by the
debian sysadmins in the same way they maintain the root accounts, SSL
certs, etc.?

$0.02USD,
-s

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