Hi, Santiago approached us (pgp-update) about splitting the debian-keyring from doc-debian because a) the keyring tar ball is currently 256Kb (36% of doc-debian's installed size) and growing (it may eventually double in size when I get round to adding a debian-keyring.gpg) and b) the keyring is updated much more frequently than doc-debian needs to be (doc-debian wasn't updated for 7 months at one point).
So we intend to create a debian-keyring package which will be uploaded weekly (if there are no changes, there'll be no upload, but given the last couple of months I don't anticipate that RSN). It'll be maintained by "Igor Grobman and James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". I know this is controversial, but quite frankly, I don't care. The current ``policy'' was invented by Christian with zero consultation (he ``thought it was already policy''[1]) and until it's ratified by the developers I will ignore it as much as I ignored the bogus no-ldconfig FUD in the packaging manual prior to 2.4.0.1. Personally I think this package could go into hamm since it is a) not really new but is a derivative of a package already in hamm, b) Arch: all, c) very simple, it's hard to imagine release-critical errors one could make in packaging it. But if Brian disagrees I won't argue the point and it'll go to slink. Any objections? (To the package itself, only please; take any comments about the multiple-maintainership to debian-policy) [1] <URL:http://www.nl.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-policy-9802/msg00053.html> -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
