> Thank you for your report. Yes, the signature is old, because Packages
> files and such for stable are only generated upon some release. So on
> the next point release, which shouldn't take too long anymore, the 2006
> key will be used.

Yes but we can't wait anymore because apt is unusable since the key as expired
even on stable when you are using apt-check-sigs. And there is no way to bypass
this step due to security concerns.
"which shouldn't take too long" months? years?...
Everyone knewn that the key would be outdate in 2006, I can't understand it's
take so long for such critical security issue.

> Anyway, for people who already installed stable, nothing changed, and
> the trust in the archive doesn't suddenly decrease just because there
> was not a re-assurance that yes, the very same release is still genuine.
> This doesn't mean that this shouldn't be fixed of course.

Except if you are using apt-check-sigs system... This mean that it had to be
fixed for yesterday.

Xavier
>
> --Jeroen
>



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