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Re: apt 0.6 in experimental



On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 12:11:32AM +0200, George Danchev wrote:

> 	Ok, one more thing. It would be nice if by downloading with apt-get source, 
> dpkg-source (or apt-get itself) processes the *.dsc file and checks if the 
> signature is good ad if so if the sums match. Also in sace of mismatch  
> apt-key to suggest upgrade or rsync debian-keyring.

apt 0.6 will provide similar prompting for "apt-get source" as "apt-get
install".  apt will not attempt to interpret the .dsc file; that is
dpkg-source's job.  dpkg-source already verifies the checksums, and
dscverify is available to check the signature.

-- 
 - mdz



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