Release Requirement for Debian GNU/Linux 2.1

Support for GnuPG

This has been proposed by Martin Mitchell.

GnuPG as standard signature for packages. This reflects work at:

  • The dinstall script (~maor/dinstall/dinstall)
  • Package builder, cvs-buildpackage, build
  • gnupg keyring [done, regularily uploaded by James Troup]
  • gnupg support in MUA's [partially done: mutt is fine]
  • gnupg support in premail / or a rewrite of the debian-security-announce checker

Marco d'Itri added:

The typical PGP 2.6 user can use this ~/.gnupg/options file:

no-greeting
load-extension idea
load-extension rsa
default-key 0x3C620D2D
no-comment

Mutt users (>= 0.93i) can add that to their ~/.muttrc files:

set pgp_gpg="/usr/local/bin/gpg"
set pgp_default_version=gpg

GNUPG 0.3.2 needs a patch to correctly verify RSA clearsigned text. It can be downloaded from http://www.linux.it/~md/gpg-pgp2.diff.