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

[From: Niels Breet]

On Tue, October 21, 2008 22:20, Eduardo Lima (Etrunko) wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Niels Breet <niels at maemo.org> wrote:
>
>> 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?

Of course not! :)

> 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?
>

We don't require it at all. So if you instruct your tools to allow it, you
should be ok.

>
> --
> Eduardo de Barros Lima
> INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia
> eblima at gmail.com
>

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