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today's leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 31, 2022

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[OpenMandriva] ROME users attention please

=> ↺ [OpenMandriva] ROME users attention please

The process to copy cooker repositories to rolling just finished.
[...]
The time has come.
Current ROME users please stop any update.
If you plan to convert your system, which receives updates from cooker branch, to real ROME rolling release you should switch the update channel to rolling right now.

Several /sbin daemons are now dynamically-linked

=> ↺ Several /sbin daemons are now dynamically-linked

But the followup a few hours later explains some of the motivation for the move: [...]

Wouter Verhelst: Not currently uploading

=> ↺ Wouter Verhelst: Not currently uploading

Although his post is mostly garbage, there is one bit of information that is correct, and that is that my GPG key is currently no longer in the Debian keyring. Nothing sinister is going on here, however; the simple fact of the matter is that I misplaced my OpenPGP key card, which means there is a (very very slight) chance that a malicious actor (like, perhaps, Mr. Notorious) would get access to my GPG key and abuse that to upload packages to Debian. Obviously we can't have that -- certainly not from him -- so for that reason, I asked the Debian keyring maintainers to please disable my key in the Debian keyring.

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