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Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?



* Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> [2005:11:23 18:40 +0100]: 
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:34:41 +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar
> >Just to provide some statistics about dpkg-sig usage, as I got curious
> >about it too:
> >
> >In the archive, 525 out of 283283 .deb's are dpkg-sig'd (0.19%). There
> >are 8 distinct keys used for those 525 .deb's, seven of which correspond
> >to DD's[1].
> 
> So, most of the DD's do not care about security at all. Why does
> Debian have a reputation of being so secure?

Yet just today you filed a bug (#340403) for documentation to be
included in the package since you were unable to explain dpkg-sig's
strengths. How is it possible for you to claim something is more secure
when you don't understand it well enough to say how it's different?

-- 
off the chain like a rebellious guanine nucleotide



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