[arch-general] gpg source validation for kernel.org style signatures

Leonid Isaev lisaev at umail.iu.edu
Mon Jan 5 17:37:33 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 04:09:50AM -0500, Daniel Micay wrote:
> On 04/01/15 04:05 PM, Christian Hesse wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> > 
> > pacman 4.2.0 gained support for verifying source tarballs with kernel.org
> > style signature. Some (even essential) packages could benefit from that,
> > linux and git come to mind.
> > 
> > How to handle this? Report a bug for every package? Provide a list here?
> 
> I would create a wiki page with the list and then see if you can find a
> developer interested in mass-adding the missing signatures. I'd be
> interested in helping with it for [community], but you'll likely be able
> to do it yourself soon ;).

In the TODO list mentioned in this thread, community/exim is absent, even
though its releases are signed (see e.g. this announcement
https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20140811.135006.dc48cddf.en.html ).

Cheers,
-- 
Leonid Isaev
GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6  20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4
                  C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE  775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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