Re: Updated Debian Developers Keyring

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Anthony Towns wrote:

> I don't see any evidence of it:
>
> ajt@raff:~$ ls -l /srv/keyring.debian.org/pub/keyrings/
> total 28056
> -rw-r--r-- 1 troup root 25393210 Apr 17 19:13 debian-keyring.gpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 troup root   949211 Apr 17 19:13 debian-keyring.pgp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 troup root     4924 Apr 17 19:13 debian-role-keys.gpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 troup root   583785 Apr 17 19:13 emeritus-keyring.gpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 troup root   104871 Apr 17 19:13 emeritus-keyring.pgp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 troup root    26468 Apr 17 19:13 extra-keys.pgp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 troup root  1232873 Apr 17 19:13 removed-keys.gpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 troup root   366193 Apr 17 19:13 removed-keys.pgp
>
> ajt@raff:~$ groups joerg noodles
> joerg : Debian webwml nm newmaint qa debadmin planet ftpteam
> noodles : Debian keyring

Hmmmm, what really concerns me is that I do not even see evidence
that the fact stated in [1] is even implemented.

> Over the past few years (2005, 2006 and 2007 at least), there's been a
> keyring update during the DPL election period; this one's not long after
> that. It might likewise be correlated with the Ubuntu .04 releases.

This might be a nice way how Ubuntu gives back to Debian: Enable Ubuntu
employees to do some volunteer work in Debian after having done the really
important stuff. <shrug>

Kind regards

       Andreas.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg00007.html

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