On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Mike Gran <[email protected]> wrote:

> > On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 19:14 +0000, Mike Gran wrote:
>
> >>    Optional but recommended: Send your key to a GPG public key server:
> >>    'gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --send-keys KEYID', where KEYID
> > is
> >>    the eight hex digits reported by 'gpg --list-public-keys' on the
> >>    'pub' line before the date.  For full information about GPG, see
> >>    <http://www.gnu.org/software/gpg>.
> >>
> >>  So is that not optional then?
> >
> > Definitely optional, don't worry.  It's an extra convenience, though,
> > for people who want to check the signature on the distribution.  In
> > order to check the .tar.gz.sig file, they need your public key.  So,
> > either your public key needs to be available somewhere of your choosing,
> > like your website, or it should be in a public keyserver.
> >
> > I'll suggest to rms an update to the maintainers document that clarifies
> > this purpose.
>
>
> I went ahead and did that second step.  Hopefully that
> solves your problem.
>
> -Mike
>

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