Re: PGP signing packages

[jdg@maths.qmw.ac.uk (Julian Gilbey)]

> Hi,
> 
> As I was building a Debian package, dpkg-buildpackage asked me to sign the
> .dsc and .changes file.  Well it tried anyway.  My problem is that I am
> using pgp5 and but dpkg-buildpackage seems to want to use pgp2 or gpg for
> the signing.  I tried linking secring.pkr to secring.pgp and the same with
> pubring but pgp2 complained about unsupported packets.  Does anyone have
> any info on how to get dpkg-buildpackage to work with pgp5?

Simple answer: don't.  Debian currently works with PGP 2.6.x and is
moving over to GNU PG.  Please install the pgp package, copy the
~/.pgp/secring.pgp to ~/.pgp/secring.skr and see whether it works.  It
should do.  It's much easier than trying to hack dpkg-buildpackage to
work with pgp5, which Debian is moving away from anyway.

   Julian

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            Julian Gilbey             Email: J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
       Dept of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary & Westfield College,
                  Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, ENGLAND
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