Package: wnpp Owner: Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> Severity: wishlist
* Package name : curses-apt-key Version : 0~2012.05.30 Upstream Author : Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> * URL or Web page : https://github.com/xtaran/curses-apt-key * License : GPLv2+ Description : Text-mode key manager for apt-key This text-mode frontend to the apt-key utility provides an easy way to maintain digital keys for APT also on servers (compared to gui-apt-key). Those keys are required to authenticate Debian archives and prevent malicious packages to creep in. ---- It's basically the gui-apt-key frontend by Joey Schulze rewritten with Curses instead of Gtk but still using the same backend, i.e. gui-apt-key's internal backend called GAK::Backend. Currently curses-apt-key depends on gui-apt-key, which means it pulls in Gtk, X libraries, etc. which is surely not wanted on servers, but still saves one from needing to do X forwarding via SSH. To be widely useful, gui-apt-key needs to be splitted in two binary packages: a backend and (Gtk) frontend. I've got a PoC patch that splits up gui-apt-key accordingly which I'll file as wishlist bug against gui-apt-key soon. The current curses-apt-key package works fine with both, the current gui-apt-key and the backend only packages produced by my patch, i.e. it doesn't need changes once the patch is applied to gui-apt-key. Binary packages for testing are available at http://noone.org/debian/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120530122839.30a97b96...@sym2.noone.org
