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Re: Bug#990521: I wonder whether bug #990521 "apt-secure points to apt-key which is deprecated" should get a higher severity



On 2021-07-01 20:19:55 +0000 (+0000), Jeremy Stanley wrote:
[...]
> > Lets not throw the baby out with the bathwater, shall we?
> [...snip bits about the abject horrors of apt-key...]
> 
> This was in response to the linked wiki article you helped edit,
> purporting to represent a "best practice" (ye gods how I despise
> that term, but let's not go there today) insisting with an RFC 2119
> "MUST" that the key not be placed in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d, and
> that seems a bit extreme. I get that you were not the author of the
> article, but rather merely consulted on it. Still, it seems to have
> resulted in people unnecessarily demonizing /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d
> as inherently insecure.
[...]

And as soon as I sent this I realized I was confusing you with DKG,
apologies for that!
-- 
Jeremy Stanley

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