Bug#1103625: modernize-sources: use .pgp file extension for debian-archive-keyring

"Christian T. Steigies" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.apt.devel
Message-ID <aAaCyLaJv5xPjQZb__29110.3508368664$1745257892$gmane$org@gleep.fritz.box>
Moin,
On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 09:02:47PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On April 19, 2025 8:30:19 PM GMT+02:00, "Christian T. Steigies" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Package: apt
> >Version: 3.0.0
> >Severity: wishlist
> >
> >Moin,
> >an upgrade offered to modernize my sources, so I did.
> >Just seconds before I saw the message from the upgraded
> >debian-archive-keyring:
> >  Certificate (keyring) files in /usr/share/keyrings now have the
> >  file extension .pgp, rather than .gpg.
> >Shouldn't a just modernized source use the new file extension as well?
> 
> So the .pgp extension is reserved for PGP messages, not keys.
> 
> This needs to be resolved by the IETF WG, and the change in the keyring package was premature.
> 
> The only file extension for keys is .asc for armored ones.

I see, so the (old) .gpg extension is also wrong?

Should the bug be closed then or forwarded somewhere else?

thanks,
Christian
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