Subject: bug#20788: 24.4; Nicolas Petton's key not included in GNU keyring

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 17:34:44 -0400

William G. Gardella wrote:

> Emacs 24.5 as uploaded to
>  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-24.5.tar.xz with the signature at
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-24.5.tar.xz.sig
> is allegedly signed by Nicolas Petton with long ID 0x233587A47C207910,
> but the GNU keyring at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg
> does not include this key.

This is a duplicate of http://debbugs.gnu.org/20298.

I repeat my comment from http://debbugs.gnu.org/20298#23:

Nobody here can do anything about this, it's a GNU sysadmin issue.
It's been reported to them, nothing seems to have happened.

If you want to verify the signature, the key is available from standard
keyservers, eg pgp.mit.edu. I don't see the value of a keyring that is
stored on the same ftp server as the file you want to download.