Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> On Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2014, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> What I'm talking about already exists in Debian, but is rarely used. 
>> dpkg-sig creates a signature that is embedded in the .deb file.  So that
>> means no matter how the .deb file got onto a system, that signature can be
>> verified. I'm proposing to start making dpkg-sig a standard part of
>> official .deb files. This can be done in stages to make it manageable. 
>> Here's a rough idea of that:
> 
> how about you file a bug against dpkg-sig and put your plan and justification 
> in there. Here on the mailinglist it will just be lost...

Finally did this:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762153

And someone else filed a bug to get apt-transport-https included in apt:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756535

.hc

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