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Re: Processing of .changes files by dak



Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:

>> I suppose that most of the time you'll get lucky and one of the key
>> uids will match LDAP, but you still lose on DMs.  And it's certainly
>> not required that one of the key uids matches anything in LDAP.

> I, on the contrary suppose that the developer LDAP database could, in
> fact, be used in the same fashion as it is by devotee, who-uploads,
> probably dak somewhere else etc. to map key fingerprints to Debian
> accounts. Add @debian.org and you get an email address (let's not care
> about people disabling it). The DMs are assigned UIDs that look, after
> some very mild modification (s/^dm://), eeriely like email addresses.

Ah, I see what you're saying.  Yeah, that would work.  Obvious in
retrospect; I was just being dense.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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