Package: apt
Version: 2.6.1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: deb...@rocketjump.eu

Hi,

it would be nice if the sources.list man page would write more verbosely in what
format the Signed-By: field in a deb822-styles .sources file should be.

I converted a binary key into ASCII-armored via:
gpg --enarmor < files/artifacts.elastic.co.gpg

And used following stanza:

---8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<---
# {{ ansible_managed }}
Enabled: yes
Types: deb
URIS: https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/8.x/apt
Suites: stable
Components: main
Signed-By:
  -----BEGIN PGP ARMORED FILE-----
  Comment: Use "gpg --dearmor" for unpacking
  .
  mQENBFI3HsoBCADXDtbNJnxbPqB1vDNtCsqhe49vFYsZN9IOZsZXgp7aHjh6CJBD
  A+bGFOwyhbd7at35jQjWAw1O3cfYsKAmFy+Ar3LHCMkV3oZspJACTIgCrwnkic/9
  CUliQe324qvObU2QRtP4Fl0zWcfb/S8UYzWXWIFuJqMvE9MaRY1bwUBvzoqavLGZ
  j3SF1SPO+TB5QrHkrQHBsmX+Jda6d4Ylt8/t6CvMwgQNlrlzIO9WT+YN6zS+sqHd
  1YK/aY5qhoLNhp9G/HxhcSVCkLq8SStj1ZZ1S9juBPoXV1ZWNbxFNGwOh/NYGldD
  2kmBf3YgCqeLzHahsAEpvAm8TBa7Q9W21C8vABEBAAG0RUVsYXN0aWNzZWFyY2gg
  KEVsYXN0aWNzZWFyY2ggU2lnbmluZyBLZXkpIDxkZXZfb3BzQGVsYXN0aWNzZWFy
  Y2gub3JnPokBOAQTAQIAIgUCUjceygIbAwYLCQgHAwIGFQgCCQoLBBYCAwECHgEC
  F4AACgkQ0n1mbNiOQrRzjAgAlTUQ1mgo3nK6BGXbj4XAJvuZDG0HILiUt+pPnz75
  nsf0NWhqR4yGFlmpuctgCmTD+HzYtV9fp9qW/bwVuJCNtKXk3sdzYABY+Yl0Cez/
  7C2GuGCOlbn0luCNT9BxJnh4mC9h/cKI3y5jvZ7wavwe41teqG14V+EoFSn3NPKm
  TxcDTFrV7SmVPxCBcQze00cJhprKxkuZMPPVqpBS+JfDQtzUQD/LSFfhHj9eD+Xe
  8d7sw+XvxB2aN4gnTlRzjL1nTRp0h2/IOGkqYfIG9rWmSLNlxhB2t+c0RsjdGM4/
  eRlPWylFbVMc5pmDpItrkWSnzBfkmXL3vO2X3WvwmSFiQbkBDQRSNx7KAQgA5JUl
  zcMW5/cuyZR8alSacKqhSbvoSqqbzHKcUQZmlzNMKGTABFG1yRx9r+wa/fvqP6OT
  RzRDvVS/cycws8YX7Ddum7x8uI95b9ye1/Xy5noPEm8cD+hplnpU+PBQZJ5XJ2I+
  1l9Nixx47wPGXeClLqcdn0ayd+v+Rwf3/XUJrvccG2YZUiQ4jWZkoxsA07xx7Bj+
  Lt8/FKG7sHRFvePFU0ZS6JFx9GJqjSBbHRRkam+4emW3uWgVfZxuwcUCn1ayNgRt
  KiFv9jQrg2TIWEvzYx9tywTCxc+FFMWAlbCzi+m4WD+QUWWfDQ009U/WM0ks0Kww
  EwSk/UDuToxGnKU2dQARAQABiQEfBBgBAgAJBQJSNx7KAhsMAAoJENJ9ZmzYjkK0
  c3MIAIE9hAR20mqJWLcsxLtrRs6uNF1VrpB+4n/55QU7oxA1iVBO6IFu4qgsF12J
  TavnJ5MLaETlggXY+zDef9syTPXoQctpzcaNVDmedwo1SiL03uMoblOvWpMR/Y0j
  6rm7IgrMWUDXDPvoPGjMl2q1iTeyHkMZEyUJ8SKsaHh4jV9wp9KmC8C+9CwMukL7
  vM5w8cgvJoAwsp3Fn59AxWthN3XJYcnMfStkIuWgR7U2r+a210W6vnUxU4oN0PmM
  cursYPyeV0NX/KQeUeNMwGTFB6QHS/anRaGQewijkrYYoTNtfllxIu9XYmiBERQ/
  qPDlGRlOgVTd9xUfHFkzB52c70E=
  =92oX
  -----END PGP ARMORED FILE-----
---8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<---

This will fail with a rather unhelpful message:
root@maven:~# apt update
E: Unable to parse package file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastico.sources (1)
E: The list of sources could not be read.

After some trial and error I found out that replacing the first and last line
with 
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

fixed the problem. Maybe it would also make sense to let the key parser work
with the above values, too, as they're what GPG will output.

Regards,
Lee

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable-security'), (990, 
'proposed-updates'), (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-23-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.134
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2023.3+deb12u1
ii  gpgv                    2.2.40-1.1
ii  libapt-pkg6.0           2.6.1
ii  libc6                   2.36-9+deb12u7
ii  libgcc-s1               12.2.0-14
ii  libgnutls30             3.7.9-2+deb12u3
ii  libseccomp2             2.5.4-1+deb12u1
ii  libstdc++6              12.2.0-14
ii  libsystemd0             252.29-1~deb12u1

Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20230311

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc         <none>
ii  aptitude        0.8.13-5
ii  dpkg-dev        1.21.22
ii  gnupg           2.2.40-1.1
ii  powermgmt-base  1.37
ii  synaptic        0.91.3

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