]] David Kalnischkies | I still don't think it is a real bug as APT has a hard dependency on | debian-archive-keyring ~ it doesn't recommend this keys, it says: | You must have ALL these keys installed to use APT correctly and | on the other hand i see no reason why someone want to remove a | key from the debian-archive-keyring which would be not better be | done by the package itself for all users… | (we could questioning the dependency itself now of course)
Let's agree to disagree about this? :-) [...] | The big advantage is that we would no longer need apt-key and | therefore gpg to add/remove keys to apt's trusted keyring: | Simple mv, cp & rm would be enough for managing, gpgv for usage and | gnupg could be dropped from Priority:important-list (see #387688). Oh, this is great news. | The small advantage for you would be that this fragment files could | be real dpkg conf-files and neither apt nor debian-archive-keyring would need | special code (aka apt-key update) to ensure a correctly setupped keyring. | | The files are still binary files so dpkgs conffile handling wouldn't be that | helpful, but at least the md5sum mismatch would be noticeable… | (Yes, binary is required here as gpgv only supports the binary format) | On the other hand the keyrings could be fragmented in | debian-archive-keyring-lenny.gpg, debian-archive-keyring-squeeze.gpg, | whatever.gpg so the situation would be in 99% of all cases | a removed conffile instead of a modified… (if modified at all). Sure, binary files in /etc is somewhat icky from a diff(1) point of view, but I at least can live with that. | Oh, and yes, after that apt could lower the debian-archive-keyring | dependency to recommends as it wouldn't need to set it up any longer, | but i would like to defer this discussion to some point after squeeze… Works for me. Thanks for your work on this. :-) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
