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Bug#457899: RFP: ubuntu-archive-keyring -- GnuPG keys of the Ubuntu archive



Hi,

On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:36:51 +0900
Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@43-1.org> wrote:
> Dererk <dererk@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > For what I see, I think this represents more like a serious security
> > breach for the Debian Project adopting a third-party keyring, than to
> > perform this very special task by hand in the very limited scenarios
> > this could be necessary.
> 
> How is this different from including debian-edu-archive-keyring,
> debian-ports-archive-keyring and emdebian-archive-keyring? As far as I
> know none of those archives are maintained on the official Debian
> infrastructure.

 I agree with Ansgar said. There's some non-debian-official keyring in
 Debian repository now. And I couldn't see any security breach for Debian
 by adopting a third-party keyring as a package.

 - Is there security breach? If so, how?
   + non-Debian-official third party keyring packages are already in repo.
   + third party keyring package is not installed by default. Only developers
     who want to use it would use. If there's security risk, it's limited.

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Pros)
 - Debian developers can test in Ubuntu environment
   It makes porting from/checking bug fix in Ubuntu easier.
   + It will help Ubuntu, and making difference small is also benefit for Debian.

Cons)
 - we should put & (also) maintain Ubuntu-archive-keyring package
 - Security breach? (don't know its impact)

 Thought?

-- 
Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.or.jp/org
 http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane


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