Re: Debian SKS packages was: new pgp key server

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Anand Kumria wrote:

> There is but afaik it hasn't been uploaded to the archive.
> 
> I believe the debian-sks maintainers were awaiting some changes to ocaml
> but I haven't been keeping with this issue lately.

Last time I tried building my package it worked more or less.  However I
have not uploaded it yet and don't think I will in the near future.  sks
needs proper documentation first, and it should handle things like
merging and taking dumps online (i.e. concurrent access to the db).
Then there's some bug with sks serving and distributing broken keys,
which isn't fixed yet.  Sks' logging is very poor.  Another neat thing to
ease setting it up would be being able to gossip sync the DB from nil.

All in all, while I think sks is a very useful peace of software, and it
certainly is better than pks in a lot of aspects.  However, I don't
think it's ready yet to be in Debian.  Unfortunately I don't have much
time to fix those things myself.  And I don't like ocaml too.

Greetings,
-- 
Peter