Package review status

Robert Collins rbcollins@cygwin.com
Wed Sep 25 07:32:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 21:27, Volker Quetschke wrote: 
> Hi Robert,
> > Right, well I'll happily run generate checksums of what I download, and
> > if the poster to here posts the expected checksums, in a gpg signed
> > message, then we can be fairly sure that whomever sent the email,
> > created the package files.
> > 
> > Generating trust in a specific GPG signature takes time or a web of
> > trust, and is a related-but-separate discussion. I think that my GPG key
> > is well associated with me by now :] (Either that, or a very persistence
> > mimic :};}). One way would be for maintainers to follow a similar
> > approach and consistently sign their emails. YMMV.

> yes, but I need your public key to verify that you are really YOU.
> 
> Where did you put your public key, I tried some keyservers but couldn't
> find you. Many "Robert Collins", but not with rbcollins@cygwin.com .

Ah yes, I had not uploaded a recent copy with the appropriate subkeys.

I've uploaded a new version, should replicate shortly :}.
rbtcollins@hotmail.com is the primary email on the old copy, if you want
to grab that.

Also, you could try 
keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve
in your gnupg options file, I find it very useful.

Cheers,
Rob

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