Re: Bug#993590: distro-info-data: Store a mapping from distro to gpg keyring

[Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org>]

> On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 15:16:54 +0200 Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
> <josch@debian.org> wrote:
> > please consider storing a mapping from distro to keyring in
> > /usr/share/keyring. Currently there is no reliable way to retrieve the
> > authoritative keyring for a given distro name. Even when limiting
> > oneself to only Debian, it is not obvious for which suites one needs
> > /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg and for which one needs
> > /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-removed-keys.gpg.
> 
> I am not sure whether distro-info-data is the right place for it. Are
> there rules when keys move from debian-archive-keyring.gpg to debian-
> archive-removed-keys.gpg? Shouldn't that information better be shipped
> by debian-archive-keyring?

Can someone from the release team answer how this works?

Thanks,

Stefano

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