On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 12:23:57PM -0500, Adam P. Harris wrote: > A lot of developers on the policy list seem to think that it would be > better if package maintainers used their debian.org email address as the > maintainer address for any packages they own. It is definetly better, because your private can change, your debian email never changes. > Clearly I have a PGP key, and my name on that key is > <apharris@onshore.com>, which is my std email address. I don't want to > have to change and redistribute this key. No need for that. Just add a new userid to your key = pgp -ke Then you _may_ redistribute your pgp-key (though it would be better ;), but your 'old' not updated key is valid, too. > It looks like the operative places for email is in debian/control and > debian/changelog. Further, it looks like debian/changelog is parsed to > determine who's PGP key to look for. OTOH, debian/control is used for the > "Maintainer" field in the final .deb. This is correct, right? Do an "export EMAIL=apharris@debian.org" and changelog and control will hold the correct infos. > (I'm beginning to suspect I should have made a special PGP key just for > package maintenance. Of course, I wouldn't know when I got signed up > what my master.debian.org account name would be, at least not for sure.) Nope. That's no good. Having a pgp-key for each purpose would surely break up my /home partition ;-) regards Sascha -- Sascha Runschke private eMail : decker@matrix.ping.de Cell: +49-(0)177-2767693 Debian related : decker@debian.org Get the power of Debian-linux - http://www.debian.org Key fingerprint = EE354ADB C23E5FD4 38DDBBE7 8F065DBF
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