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Re: apt in experimental (Re: APT 0.6 migration -- second status report)



Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:01:38PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>
>> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
>> > I have tried in the past to keep an updated apt in experimental, but it's
>> > non-trivial because of the dependent packages.
>> 
>> So how is the key updating solved now if I may ask?
>
> In mainline, there is a facility for adding new keys to the keyring by
> updating the apt package.

Which can't be done (savely) if the key is compromised or expires
before the update (like it does every year).

MfG
        Goswin



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