Bug#316344: apt: debian-keyring

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

reassign 316344 debian-keyring
severity 316344 wishlist
retitle 316344 Please provide Debian archive keyring
thanks

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 06:14:07AM +0200, Christian von Kietzell wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.38
> Followup-For: Bug #316344
> 
> 
> I did an strace on apt and it tries to read
> /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg - which is _not_ part of the
> debian-keyring package.

...which is not _yet_ part of the debian-keyring package. ;-)

This is not required in order for apt to work, but it is the proposed method
for allowing updated keys to be added to apt.  The following two things are
required:

- Add debian-archive-keyring.gpg (and optionally
  debian-archive-removed-keys.gpg)

- If apt-key is available, run apt-key update in debian-keyring.postinst

In this way, new keys can be provided to apt via an updated keyring package.
It might be desirable to provide the archive keys in a separate package,
such that it could be made part of base.

-- 
 - mdz