Re: Request for Help: apt 0.6

2005-02-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | - key management, > > - are able to review the key management part and > - design and discuss this with the release team > - (re-)design and discuss package updates and security updates > - take into account that the archive key is rotated ye

Re: Request for Help: apt 0.6

2005-02-15 Thread Florian Weimer
* Martin Schulze: > Even though this will probably work well on a small scale, it won't on > a large scale. Just think about the installations of 500 or 1000 > Debian machines that also have security support. This is not > hypothetical. These installations do exist. You don't want to > install

Re: Request for Help: apt 0.6

2005-02-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Florian Weimer wrote: > * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > > You still need to deal with key revocation and a new key being needed, > > anyway. Yearly changes will not make it more difficult, it will make sure > > those codepaths are tested (and used at least once an year). > I can understand that

Re: Request for Help: apt 0.6

2005-02-15 Thread Martin Schulze
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.14.1851 +0100]: > > We need help by competent developers who work on apt 0.6 with the goal > > to get it supported properly and eventually enter sid and sarge. > > Thank you, Joey! > > For the record, I am too strung

Re: Request for Help: apt 0.6

2005-02-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Moin, > > We need help by competent developers who work on apt 0.6 with the goal > to get it supported properly and eventually enter sid and sarge. > > There is a good chance the release will happen before the issues with > apt 0.6 are resolved, so th

Re: Request for Help: apt 0.6

2005-02-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > You still need to deal with key revocation and a new key being needed, > anyway. Yearly changes will not make it more difficult, it will make sure > those codepaths are tested (and used at least once an year). Right now, it's not codepaths, but system administrat

Re: Request for Help: apt 0.6

2005-02-14 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:04:51PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > A similar 2 key system is probably a good idea for security, and maybe > also for the normal rotated keys (just ship 2005 and 2006 keys now). i think having two keys would make logistics a lot simpler for release upgrades, assuming

Re: Request for Help: apt 0.6

2005-02-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.14.1933 +0100]: > You still need to deal with key revocation and a new key being > needed, anyway. Yearly changes will not make it more difficult, > it will make sure those codepaths are tested (and used at least > once an year)

Re: Request for Help: apt 0.6

2005-02-14 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Why? What argument is there against a per-release key, including > > keys for security, testing, unstable, and experimental? It would > > certainly make things a little easier... > > You still need to deal with key revocation and a new k

Re: Request for Help: apt 0.6

2005-02-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.14.1851 +0100]: > > We need help by competent developers who work on apt 0.6 with the goal > > to get it supported properly and eventually enter sid and sarge. > > Thank you, Joey! > > For the re

Re: Request for Help: apt 0.6

2005-02-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.14.1851 +0100]: > We need help by competent developers who work on apt 0.6 with the goal > to get it supported properly and eventually enter sid and sarge. Thank you, Joey! For the record, I am too strung up right now to be any use in coordi

Request for Help: apt 0.6

2005-02-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Moin, We need help by competent developers who work on apt 0.6 with the goal to get it supported properly and eventually enter sid and sarge. There is a good chance the release will happen before the issues with apt 0.6 are resolved, so this may be a task that cannot address sarge in time but onl