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From: "Ulrich Müller" <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: glep@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] glep-0042: Drop requirement for detached signatures.
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:10:28
Message-Id: a94ba0cb135c496f2adaed1efe0ff29ba5b41ecb.1511775662.git.ulm@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Two updates for GLEP 42 by "Ulrich Müller"
1 ---
2 glep-0042.rst | 18 +++++++++---------
3 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
4
5 diff --git a/glep-0042.rst b/glep-0042.rst
6 index c6b41e9..7726ea4 100644
7 --- a/glep-0042.rst
8 +++ b/glep-0042.rst
9 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Type: Standards Track
10 Status: Final
11 Version: 3
12 Created: 2005-10-31
13 -Last-Modified: 2016-03-18
14 +Last-Modified: 2017-11-26
15 Post-History: 2005-11-01, 2005-11-05, 2005-11-07, 2005-12-11, 2005-12-13,
16 2005-12-18, 2006-01-05, 2006-03-02, 2006-03-06, 2006-06-12,
17 2006-09-05, 2016-03-10
18 @@ -203,19 +203,16 @@ A news item file is a text file, encoded using UTF-8 [#rfc-3629]_ for
19 compatibility with and for the same reasons as existing Gentoo documentation
20 [#docs-policy]_ and the tree [#glep-31]_.
21
22 -News items must be signed with a detached GPG signature.::
23 -
24 - gpg --armour --detach-sign ????-??-??-*.??.txt
25 -
26 -This GLEP does not specify the type or strength of signature to be used, nor
27 -does it discuss how, if at all, a centralised keychain will be provided. These
28 -issues should be handled as part of the signing policy discussions.
29 -
30 A news item file's content will consist of an RFC 822 style header [#rfc-822]_
31 followed by the main body of the message as plain text. This GLEP defines
32 various optional and mandatory headers. Future GLEPs may propose new headers —
33 tools handling these news items must ignore any unrecognised header.
34
35 +.. Note:: A previous version of this GLEP had required that news items must
36 + be signed with a detached OpenPGP signature. This was no longer deemed
37 + necessary after moving news items to a Git repository with commit signing,
38 + and deployment of full-tree verification per GLEP 74 [#glep-74]_.
39 +
40 News Item Headers
41 '''''''''''''''''
42
43 @@ -500,6 +497,9 @@ References
44 https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0034.html
45 .. [#glep-45] GLEP 45: "GLEP date format", Henrik Brix Andersen,
46 https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0045.html
47 +.. [#glep-74] GLEP 74: "Full-tree verification using Manifest files",
48 + Michał Górny, Robin Hugh Johnson, Ulrich Müller,
49 + https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0074.html
50 .. [#iso-639] ISO 639 "Code for the representation of names of languages"
51 .. [#ramereth-repo] "Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting", Lance
52 Albertson,
53 --
54 2.15.0

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