On Vi, 13 iun 14, 12:07:00, Simon Hollenbach wrote: > 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. > > I am asking myself why the updated debian-keyring package is not > available from wheezy-backports repository. Can someone shed some light > on this?
I'd say such an update rather qualifies for stable-updates, not backports, but in any case the answer is "because nobody is doing it" (yet?). You might want to file a wishlist bug against the debian-keyring package, see what the Maintainers think about it. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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