Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository
"Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 21 June 2008 11:38:07 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 07:34:59PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On Saturday 21 June 2008 15:52, Alexander Wirt wrote:
>> > > I'm still not that sure if its a good idea to add a non-offical
>> > > debian repo keyring into the archive...
>> >
>> > Nobody is forced to install it?!
>> >
>> > And AFAICS we regulary recommend backports.org to users, who need newer
>> > software. So I think it should be in.
>>
>> But backports.org is still unofficial. If it were permitted, then what
>> would happen when other unofficial repository maintainers want to
>> package their repository keyrings? Will those be allowed or disallowed?
>
> Maybe a common, group maintained, debian-unofficial-keyring package?
Err, no. I might want to trust the maintainers of backports.org to
handle their keys well, but not necessarily others.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
Reply to: