Bug#480478: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

[Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@in-medias-res.com>]

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 01:38:07PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> But backports.org is still unofficial.

so what? Its unofficial, but still its of great use for the most Debian
users.

> If it were permitted, then what
> would happen when other unofficial repository maintainers want to
> package their repository keyrings?  Will those be allowed or disallowed?

In my humble opinion they should be allowed to be packaged as if they
are normal packages. Don't get me wrong, but Debian is a distribution,
so what we basically do is pack up things that are worth distributing
and distribute them. This way Debian users can benefit from our work and
ofcourse upstreams work. It would be the same for other keyrings. Its
for the benefit of a larger audience of Debian users. Ofcourse this
is not true for every keyring out there. So my approach isn't to let
every keyring into the archive, but decide on case to case. Similar to
whats beeing done with usual packages.
Its already common for usual packages that they shouldn't be added
if they don't provide benefit to *some* Debian users, like tools
for a common goal which is already solved well and good by a
lot of other tools in the archive.

Best Regards,
Patrick