Re: [PATCH 0/3] b4 keyring maintenance

On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 07:19:23PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> last week I noticed that there are several symlinks in .keyring (i.e.
> the directory that can be used with b4) that are not up to date. This
> patch set cleans up a part of the issues.

Merged, thank you!

> What is still open and ugly:
> 
>  - The scripts don't cope for these cases, so unless some manual care is
>    applied, the keyring will become outdated again.
>  - There are quite some email addresses that are part of two keys
>    (`iconv -f latin1 keys/*.asc | sed -nr 's/^uid[^<]*<([^>]*)>/\1/p' | sort | uniq -d`
>    produces some false positives)
>    For these the cert that is linked to is not chosen deterministically.

I agree, this was never really completed, largely because the b4 keyring isn't
fully completed as far as designing it goes. I hope to get back to it soon,
though.

Thanks,
-K