On 2010-01-07 17:42 +0100, Stephen Powell wrote: > On 2010-01-07 at 11:04:18 -0500, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Install the debian-keyring package. > > Thank you! That solves the problem. But it requires 26M of disk space! > Wow! It's just a collection of keys, right? Why is it so big? > Are there THAT MANY Debian developers?
About thousand. > On 2010-01-07 at 11:04:18 -0500, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Because it is not necessary if you don't work with source packages. > > Well, I guess that makes sense. But apt does not recommend or > even suggest debian-keyring. It seems to me that if one runs > "apt-get source" and debian-keyring is not installed, apt-get > should issue a warning message that debian-keyring is not installed. I think this is more for dpkg-dev; that package suggests debian-keyring, but dpkg-source could probably print some advice if gpg can't find the key during extraction. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
