Re: Signature of wheezy's linux source package
On 12/06/2014 21:39, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, Matthias Großmann wrote:
>> after downloading the most recent linux source package for wheezy
>> on my wheezy system, I noticed that dpkg-source fails to verify its
>> signature:
> [...]
>> I would expect everything required to verify packages in wheezy to be
>> included in wheezy, so I guess this is a bug. Or am I missing something?
>
> The keyring in stable is almost never updated, while the keys that are
> used by developers to sign packages are often updated in the time
> between the freezing of stable and now.
>
> You can either download the newest version of the keyring, or you can
> use keyring.debian.org.
Hi,
thanks for explaining this.
I am asking myself why the updated debian-keyring package is not
available from wheezy-backports repository. Can someone shed some light
on this?
Regards,
Simon
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