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From: | carl hansen |
Subject: | Re: [bug-gsrc] Fwd: guile-ncurses |
Date: | Mon, 9 May 2016 15:16:04 -0700 |
> On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 19:14 +0000, Mike Gran wrote:
>> Optional but recommended: Send your key to a GPG public key server:
>> 'gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --send-keys KEYID', where KEYID
> is
>> the eight hex digits reported by 'gpg --list-public-keys' on the
>> 'pub' line before the date. For full information about GPG, see
>> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gpg>.
>>
>> So is that not optional then?
>
> Definitely optional, don't worry. It's an extra convenience, though,
> for people who want to check the signature on the distribution. In
> order to check the .tar.gz.sig file, they need your public key. So,
> either your public key needs to be available somewhere of your choosing,
> like your website, or it should be in a public keyserver.
>
> I'll suggest to rms an update to the maintainers document that clarifies
> this purpose.
I went ahead and did that second step. Hopefully that
solves your problem.
-Mike
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