I am sorry to bring up this issue again, but since #295527 is still open, I think it is worth bringing attention back to it. IMHO at least simply updated keyring would be great to have. It is pathetic to have 2005.05.28 version (especially since I am not in that one ;-) )
I am not competent enough in managing keyrings so I would better stay away from prepping NMU for this one On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > I've created a version of the debian-keyring package that uses jetring. > I started with the package in the archive, and then updated it > using the more current keyrings James keeps on keyring.debian.org. For > details, see the typescript. > A few issues with jetring did come to light. It does not preserve a few > signatures on keys in debian-keyring.gpg. I suspect these are old > expired signatures, but have not double-checked. When processing > emeritus-keyring.gpg, it fails to import keys 76578289 (Stephen J. > Carpenter), and C998F231 (Lonnie Sauter) due to a missing (expired?) > self-signature, and the same also happens with numerous keys in > removed-keys.gpg. I decided not to set up a jetring for removed-keys at > least until this is resolved. Also, I did not set up a jetring for > extra-keys.pgp since it seems static. > One thing I want to do but have not yet tackled is generating the > debian/changelog using the same format that it's always used. I assume > that James has a tool that takes gpg output and generates those > changelog entries, and I'd prefer not to reinvent that wheel if I can > avoid it. I'm hoping I'll get lucky and find a copy of that tool, and > maybe I'll be extra lucky and can just pipe jetring-diff output to it. > At this point the package stands as a demo of using jetring, but if > James wants, I'm willing to work on it a bit more and upload it to the > archive and maintain it based on the changes James makes to the > keyring.debian.org keyrings. > http://kitenet.net/~joey/tmp/debian-keyring/ -- Yaroslav Halchenko Research Assistant, Psychology Department, Rutgers-Newark Student Ph.D. @ CS Dept. NJIT Office: (973) 353-5440x263 | FWD: 82823 | Fax: (973) 353-1171 101 Warren Str, Smith Hall, Rm 4-105, Newark NJ 07102 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
