Outdated GPG signing keys info on website

Ben Cooksley bcooksley at kde.org
Sun Oct 28 18:31:41 GMT 2018


On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, 01:10 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org wrote:

> El diumenge, 28 d’octubre de 2018, a les 1:43:44 CET, Daniel Vrátil va
> escriure:
> > Hola!
> >
> > looking for GPG keys for Applications tarballs signatures,
>
> They are on the info page of each release, i.e.
> https://www.kde.org/info/applications-18.08.0.php
>
>         The tarballs have been signed by Christoph Feck
> F23275E4BF10AFC1DF6914A6DBD2CE893E2D1C87.
>
> > Google has lead me
> > to https://kde.org/download/signature.php which contains a pair of
> fairly
> > outdated GPG keys - I don't know if this site is linked from anywhere,
> but IMO
> > it should either be updated with keys of people who do sign our tarballs
> these
> > days or removed completely - it would certainly improve the
> trustworthiness of
> > the signatures :-)
>
> They are only linked from a few 3.0.x releases.
>
> $ wcgrep signature.php
> ./download/signature.php:6:<!-- $Id: signature.php 523084 2006-03-27
> 11:23:21Z scripty $ -->
> ./info/3.0.4.php:35:  <a href="http://www.kde.org/download/signature.php">KDE
> Signature page</a>
> ./info/3.0.2.php:34:  <a href="http://www.kde.org/download/signature.php">KDE
> Signature page</a>
> ./info/3.0.5.php:32:  <a href="http://www.kde.org/download/signature.php">KDE
> Signature page</a>
> ./info/3.0.3.php:35:  <a href="http://www.kde.org/download/signature.php">KDE
> Signature page</a>
> ./info/3.0.5a.php:32:  <a href="http://www.kde.org/download/signature.php">KDE
> Signature page</a>
>
> Given that those tarbals are no longer accessible on the web (which i find
> weird we remove stuff but that's how it is) I guess we can just remove that
> line and the page altogether.
>

The removal of things was an old policy and something which is no longer
followed.

Things get moved to the Attic now instead: https://download.kde.org/Attic/

(this is necessary as we have an agreement with our mirrors to keep stable/
within a certain size range)


> Cheers,
>   Albert
>

Cheers,
Ben


> >
> > Cheers,
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> >
>
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