On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 12:20:23PM +0200, Luca Berra wrote:
> well, most of them are, and i believe all should be signed, not
> necessarily by mandrake, but at least from the packagers.
> After such thing as the gnu ftp server compromise i believe it is only
> responsible to sign packages.

I'd love to sign packages, but I refuse to put my GPG key on a machine I
don't control.  I suppose I could create a new key just for signing
packages, but the issue is there's still a key that has my "blessing" on
someone elses machine.  The alternative is to download each and every
package to my local machine, sign and reupload...  That's a lot of
hassle.  I tend to agree that these packages should be handled the same
way as main is and signed by a Mandrake key...  A separate key could be
made for contrib and signing could/should be handled the same way as
main.

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