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Re: about volatile.d.o/n



On Fri, 08 Oct 2004, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Henning Makholm wrote:
> > Scripsit Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
> >> Some things are not so obvious:
> > Should volatile include updates of packages such as debian-keyring?
> 
> debian-keyring?  Absolutely.  Out-of-date versions of this are
> tediously useless.

However, there are problems with updating the debian-keyring, and
deleted signatures and the ilk will keep files from being verifiable
if someone wants to check signatures on them. [I haven't made up my
mind if this is a good thing or not... but...]

Note as well, that you can trivially get the updated debian keyring by
pointing gpg at keyring.debian.org.
 

Don Armstrong

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