Re: Debian SKS packages was: new pgp key server

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 07:17:37PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> 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.

Those are sound interesting but I don't think any one of those things,
of indeed, even all of them combined make sks unsuitable for inclusion
in Debian.

> 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.

Well if you send me what you have, at the moment I'll fix anything
critical and upload it. I've been meaning to learn ocaml - so this
sounds like a good opportunity.

Cheers,
Anand

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