[maemo-developers] New features in autobuilder and Extras Assistant

[From: Faheem Pervez]

Hi,

I was able to use dput option -u to skip the signed check to upload a
unsigned package successfully.

I welcome these changes and am thankful for them.

HTH,
Faheem

On 10/21/08, Eduardo Lima (Etrunko) <eblima at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
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> > Package signing no longer required.
> >
> > The autobuilder and Extras Assistant no longer require packages to be GPG
> > signed. It seemed to cause a lot of grief for developers without any real
> > benefits. This change is targetted to making uploading packages easier.
> > Every uploader has to be authenticated to upload a package, so we can
> > already trace back the uploader. The autobuilder signs packages which are
> > moved into the repository.
> >
>
>
> Ok, so you don't need to sign the packages anymore, but it won't hurt
> if you upload a signed package, isn't it? My question here is
> concerning dput uploads. Is it still possible to upload packages using
> dput?? If this is the case, is GPG signing still required?
>
>
> > Upload to multiple repositories at the same time.
> >
>
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> Eduardo de Barros Lima
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> eblima at gmail.com
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