Thank you, Now I understand.
Tom ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Saturday, May 16, 2020 6:36 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 5/16/20 2:55 AM, Thomas Grzybowski wrote: > > > So, if I understand this correctly, I need a private key from a developer > > in order to > > compile packages with this tool? (probably other tools as well). > > No, you need to create your own private and public keys [1]. > > > My question is: how do I obtain such a key? > > You don't. > > > Does someone here volunteer a key or is there a process? > > There is no process. If any developer gave you his private key, you would > immediately get upload access to all of Debian and you would be able > to read any encrypted messages sent to him. > > Asking for someone's private key is like asking for their ID card > or their apartment keys. > > You need to create your own key pair, add the private key to DAK > and the public key on the target system APT keyring. > > Adrian > > > [1] https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/c14.html > > -- > > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - > glaub...@debian.org`. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - > glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de`- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 > F5B5 F913