I've created a version of the debian-keyring package that uses jetring. I started with the package in the archive, and then updated it using the more current keyrings James keeps on keyring.debian.org. For details, see the typescript. A few issues with jetring did come to light. It does not preserve a few signatures on keys in debian-keyring.gpg. I suspect these are old expired signatures, but have not double-checked. When processing emeritus-keyring.gpg, it fails to import keys 76578289 (Stephen J. Carpenter), and C998F231 (Lonnie Sauter) due to a missing (expired?) self-signature, and the same also happens with numerous keys in removed-keys.gpg. I decided not to set up a jetring for removed-keys at least until this is resolved. Also, I did not set up a jetring for extra-keys.pgp since it seems static. One thing I want to do but have not yet tackled is generating the debian/changelog using the same format that it's always used. I assume that James has a tool that takes gpg output and generates those changelog entries, and I'd prefer not to reinvent that wheel if I can avoid it. I'm hoping I'll get lucky and find a copy of that tool, and maybe I'll be extra lucky and can just pipe jetring-diff output to it. At this point the package stands as a demo of using jetring, but if James wants, I'm willing to work on it a bit more and upload it to the archive and maintain it based on the changes James makes to the keyring.debian.org keyrings. http://kitenet.net/~joey/tmp/debian-keyring/ -- see shy jo
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