Re: RFC: Consequences of redesign of .deb signatures

[Richard Lewis <richard.lewis.debian@googlemail.com>]

Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:

> The current support for .deb signatures (as implemented by debsigs
> and debsig-verify, which dpkg can be configured to call by disabling
> the «no-debsig» configuration option), has multiple limitations.

>  whether current features/misdesigns would disappear which are being
> relied on).

i think the answer might be no, but; do system checkers like debsums,
rkhunter, tiger, aide, tripwire etc do any checks using signatures?

(chkrootkit and checksecurity would not care)