authenticating packages from PPA

[Jordan Mantha]

On 9/15/07, Jonathan Rogers <jonner at teegra.net> wrote:
> This is probably a stupid question. I'd search the entire archive, but
> there's no easy way to do that using mailman's very basic archive. I am
> using someone else's PPA by adding a deb line to my sources.list. I was
> able to install the packages just fine, but I can't find any way to add
> the author's public GPG key to my apt so that it can authenticate them.
> Are we supposed to just use them unauthenticated?

This was originally a "feature". This was supposed to be a way to
separate PPAs from the official Ubuntu archives. I think *something*
should be done as Ubuntu developers are already getting bugs filed
based on PPA packages. I expect to see a lot more in the future and I
suspect that a significant number of Ubuntu users may not know the
difference between a PPA and the Ubuntu archive, especially since
Launchpad is the official development tool.

Are there any plans to do something about this issue?

-Jordan