David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 08:23:38PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > >Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de facto standard. > >> I'm currently using v5, but I've seen a number of people use 2.6... > >2.x; we don't accept later stuff. > > Really?
Yes. (I'm speaking as part of the new maintainer team, debian keyring maintenance team and as an ftp site grubber, not just for the fun of it) > I recently retrieved a lot of PGP5-Debian-Devel keys (signed Mailing-List > e-Mails, mainly new Developpers), so I got the impression that PGP5 wasn't > officially discouraged. It's not discouraged, it's simply not allowed or usable. New maintainer don't accept PGP 5 keys; PGP 5 keys don't go in the Debian keyring and dinstall doesn't accept them. -- James
