On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Benjamin Lewis <ben.le...@benl.co.uk> wrote:
> On 07/05/2011 05:15 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>
>> I didn't see any suggestion that packages be *required* to have a
>> signature, only that we somehow run an automated check on one if there
>> is one.
>>
>> Rather than making specific Source numbers special case, why not just go
>> on naming? The convention for signatures is to add an extension to the
>> name of the tarball the signature is for; that shouldn't be too hard to
>> implement, I don't think.
>
> Surely the automated testing tool would need a way of being fed
> known-trusted public keys in advance as well?

Unless my memory is failing me, we already had a mechanism for this
(specifying the trusted keys and verifying signatures) in the CVS
package repository (in Makefile.common).  Perhaps most of that could
be reused.
   Mirek
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