[pkg-fso-maint] cdebootstrap: I: Can't find keyring debian-archive-keyring.gpg

[Steffen Moeller]

Hello,

google told me that

http://zdanek.ostrejezyki.pl/2008/10/07/develop/installing-debian-on-neo1973/

already ran into this problem:

Install a basic Debian system
 * Downloading cdebootstrap package
Connecting to ftp2.de.debian.org (195.71.9.196:80)
cdebootstrap.deb     100%
|*******************************************************************************|   521k
00:00:00 ETA
 * Running cdebootstrap to install the system (might take a while)
I: Can't find keyring debian-archive-keyring.gpg
P: Retrieving Release
P: Retrieving Release.gpg
W: Couldn't validate Release!
P: Parsing Release
P: Retrieving Packages.gz
P: Validating Packages.gz
E: Couldn't validate Packages!

but I am objecting to his idea that I should download the keyring manually since it has
worked before and the option "--allow-unauthenticated" should prevent the error to occur.
Does anybody know what is happening? Might it be because of some server (ours at Tue Mar
10 21:24:43 CET 2009) not being usable at the moment? I very much presume so since two
minutes later, everything seems back to normal.

I am interested to learn about your opinions on this observation. I suggest to improve the
error message a bit, since in its current state, the "Couldn't validate Packages" is the
only information that the user gets and this seems missleading.

Many greetings

Steffen