Re: [bug-gsrc] Fwd: guile-ncurses

[carl hansen]

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Mike Gran <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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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