Package: release-notes
Severity: normal

The project really needs to make its mind up which way it is going in terms of 
managing repo keys.

The bullseye release notes, e.g. 5.3.2. Deprecated components for bullseye make 
reference to "Keys should be managed by dropping files into 
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d"

But this seems to contravene current Debian policy as stated elsewhere, namely:

"The key MUST be downloaded over a secure mechanism like HTTPS to a location 
only writable by root, which SHOULD be /usr/share/keyrings. The key MUST NOT be 
placed in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d or loaded by apt-key add. A sources.list entry 
SHOULD have the signed-by option set. The signed-by entry MUST point to a file, 
and not a fingerprint."

Source:
1. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/UseThirdParty
2. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=861695
3. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877012

Please don't confuse people by encouraging different methods in different docs !

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