Icarious <[email protected]> writes:

>> i don't see why signing the pkgbuild is required when signing the whole
>> commit achieves the same thing and is easily verifiable with: git pull
>> --rebase --verify-signatures
>
> I think every time we talk on exclusively basing a design just cause we have 
> git, we must remember that its not only Parabola PKGBUILDs we deal with. Most 
> of our PKGBUILDs are inclusive of Packages from Arch too and abslibre `does 
> not` clone them at all. So the user is left with either 1) use abs, 2) Go to 
> Arch's git web interface and individually download them. 
>
> This argument has been discussed before and I have repeatedly brought it to 
> everyone's attention that we can't have an inconsistent solution like "use 
> git for Parabola's PKGBUILDs,  and use Arch's git interface (which does have 
> PKGBUILDs of non-free packages too) for majority of the packages that come 
> from [core], [extra] and [community]". This is a very dirty way of source 
> code management. So before anyone suggests in "IGNORING" abs completely cause 
> " we have git " please do remember the PKGBUILDs that come from Arch. Unless 
> we fix that part, abs remains the "consistent" method of downloading 
> PKGBUILDs without confusing the user and referring them to the non-free arch 
> git interface, and is henceforth important to sign pkgbuilds too.  

should we sign pkgbuilds from arch then?

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