Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

[Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>]

Adam Majer wrote:
> Certainly, the backports.org keyring is useful to some people, *but* it is,
>
>   1. not free software
>   
Presumably the following packages would never have made it into Debian 
if a public key didn't comply with the DFSG.

debian-archive-keyring - GnuPG archive keys of the Debian archive
debian-edu-archive-keyring - GnuPG archive keys of the Debian Edu archive
debian-keyring - GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of Debian Developers
debian-maintainers - GPG keys of Debian maintainers
emdebian-archive-keyring - GnuPG archive keys for the emdebian repository

Having said that, having one entire package for one key file seems like 
overkill to me; is there not any other way of securely distributing the key?

Brian May