package debian-maintainers severity 488770 normal thanks On 05-Jul-2008, Ben Finney wrote: > On 05-Jul-2008, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 07:46:05PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > >Can we please update the system so that the valid userid > > >'ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au', which matches the Maintainer field, > > >is accepted and recognised? > > > > That will take some time for a Debian ftpmaster to fix. > > Okay. Against what should I file a bug report so that this can be > addressed properly, i.e. to get the correct address automatically in > the first place?
I have upgraded the severity of this bug report, since it is an ongoing problem not amenable to a one-time fix (see below). It could perhaps be re-assigned to a different package, but I don't know what package it belongs to. On 06-May-2009, Ben Finney wrote: > On 05-May-2009, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > > We don't do automatic updates from the keyservers as it may > > invalidate changes like your change to have a specific key uid as > > the primary uid. > > Ah, I'd forgotten that Debian required a specific key to be generated > for this purpose. I'd done that on the understanding that it was a > one-time kludge just to get things working. Now you seem to be saying > it needs to happen every time a subkey expires. > > So this seems like an ideal time to ask: how do we get that bug fixed? > I should be able to rely on Debian getting the same key information as > anyone else does, from the public key servers, and having my choice of > user ID in my messages. What is the correct solution to this bug? I don't know what are the ongoing effects of my key in the ‘debian-maintainers’ keyring having expired, but the solution is not to have the key owner endlessly generating special keys only for this one package every time the key is updated. Instead, I should be able to send my updated key *as is* to the keyring, and have it accepted and processed correctly. How can this be achieved? Aníbal suggests this will need effort from ftpmasters, but I don't know what needs to be done or what package the bug should be against. -- \ “Ubi dubium, ibi libertas.” (“Where there is doubt, there is | `\ freedom.”) | _o__) | Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au>
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