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Bug#980743: release-notes: bullseye is the final release to ship apt-key



Hi,

On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:17:48 +0100 Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
wrote:
> apt-key warns that it is deprecated and the manual page states that
> Debian 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 will be the last releases to ship it, but I
> guess given that use is still far too widespread, it can't hurt to add a
> similar message to the release notes.
> 
> -- Message:
> 
> This is the final Debian release to ship apt-key. Keys should be managed by
> dropping files into trusted.gpg.d instead, in binary format as created
> by gpg --export with a .gpg extension, or ASCII armored with a .asc
> extension.
> 
> A replacement for apt-key list to investigate the keyring is planned,
> but work has not started yet.

I have the attached patch ready to push.

Paul
From 7af57e1978d147978d9f65d8de2344396bb63d6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 21:16:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] issues.dbk: apt-key is going away

Closes: #980743
---
 en/issues.dbk | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/en/issues.dbk b/en/issues.dbk
index 61a12983..2517ddd7 100644
--- a/en/issues.dbk
+++ b/en/issues.dbk
@@ -515,6 +515,22 @@ Environment=SYSTEMD_SULOGIN_FORCE=1
           </para>
 	</listitem>
 
+	<listitem>
+          <para>
+           bullseye is the final Debian release to ship
+           <command>apt-key</command>. Keys should be managed by
+           dropping files into trusted.gpg.d instead, in binary format
+           as created by <command>gpg --export</command> with a
+           <literal>.gpg</literal> extension, or ASCII armored with a
+           <literal>.asc</literal> extension.
+	  </para>
+	  <para>
+	    A replacement for <command>apt-key list</command> to
+	    manually investigate the keyring is planned, but work has
+	    not started yet.
+          </para>
+	</listitem>
+
       </itemizedlist>
     </section>
 
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