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Bug#958559: debian-kernel-handbook: document how to verify authenticity of git sources



On Thu, 2020-04-23 at 19:30 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
[...]
> It would be nice if the handbook tells people how to verify their
> repos by proper git means, i.e. verify signautres on tags.

Yes, definitely.

> At least for (2), Linus signs the tags, and the Debian kernel source
> package contains Linus' and Greg's keys, so a user could at least
> quite simply verify everything up to and including the repective tag.
>
>
> For the (1) I guess you guys don't use signatures, though. :-/

All but 2 of the tags we've made since converting from Subversion to
git are signed.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
For every complex problem
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.


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