Bug#340371: apt: apt-key update fails with bogus err
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.42.1
Severity: normal
apt-key update attempts to access the file
/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg, which is not provided
by any package.
Also, apt provides key 1DB114E0 as /usr/share/apt/debian-archive.gpg,
but that key expired on 2004-01-15.
According to vorlon,
the idea of importing the keys to use for trusting packages from a
keyring that you downloaded as part of a package is screwy.
Which might not be wrong. So, this bug is waiting for:
- apt to provide an updated keyring, if that is whats intended
- apt-key to no longer include the "update" command, since it
doesn't appear to do anything with recent versions of
debian-keyring package
The manpage for apt-key should also be updated to remove references to
/u/s/keyrings/ stuff that isn't provided by any package.
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