Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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. > > I find it strange that you would make this mistake.
I've looked at PGP 5 to the extent of discovering its license is still unacceptable to me; that's it. I don't go into details partly because I haven't bothered to check on them as I have no inclination to acquaint myself with yet more non-free software, but primarily because some PGP 5 users seem to have problems generating RSA keys (I'm not making this up, it's happened several times on new maintainer; we always end up telling them to use PGP 2.x if they can't figure out how to force PGP 5 to behave). > It's not PGP5 that Debian has an issue with, it's non-RSA keys. Not true; gnupg keys are surely not RSA but they're accepted in some ways (i.e. we have a keyring for them and dpkg-dev supports the use of gnupg, but dinstall doesn't yet). RSA keys are actually something we want to get away from. -- James
