authenticating packages from PPA

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi,

Jonathan Rogers:
> 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.

Since Launchpad does not have the private key and therefore cannot sign
the PPA with it, the author's pubkey would not help you.  ;-)

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