Re: signatures for debs installed manually

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:25:45 +0200
Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:

...

> There is a tool for this called dpkg-sig. But signed debs are not
> accepted by the Debian archive so that is rarely used.
> 
> Maybe a better alternative would be to just create an apt repository.
> 
> Last, and most work for you, you can fetch the source, assuming the
> dsc file is signed, and build your own package.

Thanks for the information.  The package in question actually made it
into the repo shortly after I began this thread, but this is good to
know for the next time this happens.

Celejar
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