On 12/06/2014 21:39, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, Matthias Großmann wrote: >> after downloading the most recent linux source package for wheezy >> on my wheezy system, I noticed that dpkg-source fails to verify its >> signature: > [...] >> I would expect everything required to verify packages in wheezy to be >> included in wheezy, so I guess this is a bug. Or am I missing something? > > The keyring in stable is almost never updated, while the keys that are > used by developers to sign packages are often updated in the time > between the freezing of stable and now. > > You can either download the newest version of the keyring, or you can > use keyring.debian.org.
Hi, thanks for explaining this. I am asking myself why the updated debian-keyring package is not available from wheezy-backports repository. Can someone shed some light on this? Regards, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/539acd44.70...@gmail.com