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Re: Apt-Torrent project



Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:00:16PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>> Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> writes:
>> [...]
>> > If we can get individually-signed .debs, you won't even need to worry so
>> > much about getting the torrent files off a trusted mirror...
>> dpkg-sig exists. Use it :)
> Thanks for that, and I know all about it and sign all of my
> internally-generated .debs for work.  However, I don't bother doing it for
> my Debian-uploaded ones because (a) anything built by an autobuilder won't
> have any sigs in it,

This will (hopefully) change when enough people use dpkg-sig.

> (b) most other developers aren't signing

Well, everybody can use this as a reason, but it's no problem to call
dpkg-sig instead of debsign. [1]

Marc

Footnotes: 
[1]  And i would be very happy if the dpkg-buildpackage and debuild
     maintainers would add dpkg-sig support, at least as option.
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