Intent to package: debian-keyring
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 <pgp-update@debian.org>".
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>
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James
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