I was very
pleased to
read that "apt-secure" will finally make it into Debian. It's
been about a year and a half since the apt-secure work that
Colin and I did was merged back into
APT mainline and released as 0.6.
Folks might be interested to find
our page on
apt-secure which is perhaps unknown to someone who created a
new page on
apt-secure with no-doubt updated information. Am I the only one
who thinks that APT could use a web page? I'm very glad that the
apt-secure test suite is hosted with darcs!
While we were working on this, I promised myself that I would buy a
laptop computer when it was done. Fortunitely, I decided that "done"
meant feature-complete, not delivered with Debian... I won't tell you
how old my laptop is, but it'll probably be replaced before apt-secure
gets delivered with a stable version of Debian ;)
I keep trying to get involved in APT development, but I find it
pretty hard to follow the mailing list. A few months ago, there was a
request for help, which I replied to a few weeks later, after I dug
myself out of some other work, but my response was ignored :( I'd
still be interested in being involved in the ongoing discussions about
apt-secure or testing of apt-secure, or even other apt-related
development since I'm pretty familiar with the codebase.
Perhaps I'll take a look at the tasks on the above-mentioned web
site and try again to get involved.
Peace,
Isaac
