[D-m-team] Bug#488770: Bug#488770: debian-maintainers: Wrong email address for key 9CFE12B0791A4267887F520CB7AC2E51BD41714B

[Aníbal Monsalve Salazar]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 07:46:05PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
>On 01-Jul-2008, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
>>On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 06:11:26PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
>>>It turns out that the wrong address is also currently listed at
>>><URL:http://ftp-master.debian.org/dm-uploaders.html> for this key:
>>>
>>>    dm:ben at benfinney.id.au      Ben Finney      9CFE12B0791A4267887F520CB7AC2E51BD41714B
>>
>>ben at benfinney.id.au is listed at the URL above because it's the primary
>>userid of gpg key BD41714B in /usr/share/keyrings/debian-maintainers.gpg
>
>You're right, the primary userid differs from the one I'm using for
>Debian. But one of the main points of having multiple userids on a
>GnuPG key is to be able to use them in different contexts while using
>the same key ??? i.e. to allow the identities to be related while
>remaining discrete.

I agree.

>I'm using 'ben+debian at benfinney.id.au' for my Debian userid, which is
>one of the current userids for that key, and has been explicitly signed
>by Debian developers.
>
>Can we please update the system so that the valid userid
>'ben+debian at benfinney.id.au', which matches the Maintainer field, is
>accepted and recognised?

That will take some time for a Debian ftpmaster to fix.

We could try something quicker. You edit your key in a temporary gnupg
directory, make the userid ben+debian at benfinney.id.au the primary one,
save the changes and export the public key. Then you suibmit a changeset
with it to update your key in the DM keyring.
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