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On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 07:28  AM, Max Horn wrote:

> At 8:31 Uhr -0500 03.04.2002, Chris Zubrzycki wrote:
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>> Is there any way of signing the deb files in the bin dist to make sure 
>> they were make by an authorized developer? Is this in the plan for the 
>> future? I remember reading that debian maintainers signs thier 
>> packages. just a thought.
>
> See my mail to Jeremy for some information on this.
>
> No there is no way to automate the verification of signatures right 
> now. We could start to sign .debs in the future, though, and ship the 
> .sig's with them. That doesn't mean automatic checking, though. I don't 
> think apt-get / dselect support that right now, but I didn't look into 
> it yet either, so I might be wrong (anybody got a pointer for me on 
> this) ?

gotta love google   ;-)

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch7.en.html

they say it will not be implemented in woody, but in the next release 
(sid?) I think the sid deb tools have this feature, it is just not used 
right now (If I remember correctly from debian-security)

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