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Why not update keyring on old Ubuntu release?

Asked by Jax Young

I notice that only mantic & lunar has the up-to-date keyring for now (2023-07-18). The older release has a older keyring version. Even LTS release jammy use a outdated version. I thought kerying should always be up to date.

I want to issue a bug at first, but there's allready a same bug unresolved (open on 2022-04-15). So I want to ask why not update the keyring?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

If the outdated key is a problem for you:

1. I suggest that you modify the bug report and set its status to "confirmed"

2. You can try manually downloading and installing the package for lunar.

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Jax Young (jaxvanyang) said : 		#2

Thanks reply. I have confirmed that bug. I also manually installed the newest version on my jammy machine. It seems good.

BTW, let me explain why I need this update. I use `mmdebstrap` to bootstrap a debian rootfs. It has a `--keyring` option to specify
the gpg file. I copied the up-to-date keyring at first and feed it to `--keyring`, but it doesn't work. I think it's a bug of `mmdebstrap`,
because it works on my Arch machine. `mmdebstrap` is 1.3.6 on Arch, while it's 0.8.4 on jammy. So I use a workaround for this.
`mmdebstrap` supports mirror format like this: `deb [signed-by=/path/to/keyring] https://...`, but it won't copy the keyring into
the rootfs. This is intened by the developer [1]. So if this package is up-to-date, I can use the same keyring on my host and in
the keyring without bothering to create extra hook.

TLDR: I need the same path for the keyring on my host and in the rootfs. Hope this could be a rationale.

- [1] https://groups.google.com/g/linux.debian.bugs.dist/c/MCnu7UiZIn4/m/UUCR7zpWAAAJ