New Programs for Hardy?

[Conrad Knauer]

On Nov 20, 2007 5:30 PM, Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> P.S. you wrote a private mail.

Aaaaaggggrrrrhhhh!  Reply-to strikes again :/

Thanks for letting me know; I will report to the list with your reply.

CK

Am Dienstag, den 20.11.2007, 16:20 -0600 schrieb Conrad Knauer:

> > Furthermore this should be made obsolete by the third-party-apt spec.
>
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThirdPartyApt)
>
> Indeed, but will third-party-apt be ready in time for Hardy?

Yes.

P.S. you wrote a private mail.

On Nov 20, 2007 4:20 PM, Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2007 7:24 AM, Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Since we're at the formative stages of Hardy I thought I'd start a
> > > > thread about apps which might be good for inclusion in the default
> > > > Ubuntu setup.
> > >
> > > I was looking over my notes from the last month and I should have also suggested
> > >
> > > gui-apt-key
> > >
> > > or equivalent functionality be added to Synaptic.  Removes the need
> > > for running novice-unfriendly commands like
> > >
> > > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv 0C5A2783 && gpg --export
> > > --armor 0C5A2783 | sudo apt-key add -
> >
> > Please take a look at the already existing authentication tab of
> > software sources (software-properties-gtk).
>
> Unless I am grossly mistaken, that only allows you to import a local
> key file, hence my suggestion for incorporating gui-apt-key into
> Synaptic (maybe a "Download Key" button on that same tab to run
> gui-apt-key) since gui-apt-key just requires that you just know the
> key number (a table of such can easily be made and posted somewhere,
> e.g. in the community documentation pages).
>
> > Furthermore this should be made obsolete by the third-party-apt spec.
>
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThirdPartyApt)
>
> Indeed, but will third-party-apt be ready in time for Hardy?
>
> CK
>