[Pkg-games-devel] Re: Debian Games Team

[Bas Wijnen]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:23:05AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>  About generating a new digital signature, it's not needed. Think of
> sponsored packages, sponsors don't generate UIDs on their keys for
> sponsorees. And, what I guess is more important, we should be listed in
> the Uploaders entry, and the person uploading should finalize the
> changelog so it has their name in it.

Of course it isn't needed, but I think it would be useful anyway.  Not for
signing packages into the archive, but for using gpg for e-mail communication.
Assuming I am a user of a package, and I want to communicate with "the
maintainers of package P", it's nice to be able to encrypt my messages to a
known key, and send it to a list.  That list must then decrypt it and encrypt
it with all the list member's addresses before sending it to them.

What this key would do is allow people to send encrypted e-mail without having
to find out who currently are the developers and getting all their keys.
Assuming encrypted e-mail is a good thing, such a key would be a good thing as
well.

Thanks,
Bas

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