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Re: Why are sarge-ISO's not signed with the ftpmaster-key???



Jon Dowland writes:
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>On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 10:45:56AM +0200, m.shukov@gmx.net
>wrote:
>> After investigating a while in the net I found out, that
>> the key belongs to Steve McIntyre (steve@einval.com),
>> sombody I never heard of. That's shure because I don't
>> konow the debian Project very well. But I don't think it's
>> a very sensfull way to sign the most important downloads
>> with a key only debian-insiders know.  Why isn't the
>> ftpmaster key used?
>
>Steve McIntyre is the Debian Developer who prepares the CD
>images, and therefore signs them. He is currently the
>"Second In Command" (2IC) to the Debian Project Leader. His
>key is in the debian-keyring package.
>
>I assume the ftpmaster key is not used because the FTP
>masters have nothing to do with the CD images.

Yes, exactly. Maybe it's time to set up an extra CD images key for
this use...

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
Is there anybody out there?



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