Re: Facilitating external repositories

[Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org>]

Paul Wise writes:
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 4:52 AM Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> The official archive-keyring packages that use these, I think it's mostly
>> for backwards compatibility reasons.
>
> I wonder if it is feasible to and how the debian-archive-keyring could
> migrate from /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ to /usr/share/keyrings/ +
> signed-by. Right now it ships keyrings in both places.

I would recommend against doing this as long as sources.list is a
configuration file: it would need regular updates to change to the new
signing key.  That doesn't work out of the box.

Ansgar