Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:45:26PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>
>> Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes:
>>
>> > FWIW, I always check digital signatures when they're available, and I
>> > hope that others will as well, but in practice we are putting our faith
>> > in a large number of contributors, some of whom might not be so careful.
>>
>> I do the same when signatures are available. I couldn’t find this
>> recommendation in “contributing.texi” — should we add it there?
>
> To me, it seems that the manual section Packaging Guidelines is a better
> fit.
>
> But, we tend to recommend people read Contributing, but rarely do I see
> Packaging Guidelines recommended. I suppose it's assumed they will find
> it themselves.
“Packaging Guidelines” refers to “Contributing”. I tried to add this to
“Packaging Guidelines” but couldn’t find an appropriate place, so here’s
a patch that adds an item to the checklist in “Contributing”.
WDYT?
>From 44b8f1c04713d11601d964ecfbe2fc248a15e7c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 09:24:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Encourage signature verification.
* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Remind contributors to verify
cryptographic signatures.
---
doc/contributing.texi | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index 925c584e4..0073f2451 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -334,6 +334,12 @@ updates for a given software package in a single place and have them
affect the whole system---something that bundled copies prevent.
@item
+If the authors of the packaged software provide a cryptographic
+signature for the release tarball, make an effort to verify the
+authenticity of the archive. For a detached GPG signature file this
+would be done with the @code{gpg --verify} command.
+
+@item
Take a look at the profile reported by @command{guix size}
(@pxref{Invoking guix size}). This will allow you to notice references
to other packages unwillingly retained. It may also help determine
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2.12.2
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Ricardo
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