authenticating packages from PPA

[Martin Man]

Hi all,

Jonathan Rogers wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 14:31 -0700, Jordan Mantha wrote:
>> On 9/15/07, Jonathan Rogers <jonner at teegra.net> wrote:
>>
>> Are there any plans to do something about this issue?
> 
> That seems strange to me, since one has to manually add a line to
> sources.list to use a PPA. Why are people saavy enough to find the PPA
> pages, add the apt lines, but not realize they're not using officially
> supported packages? I never got the impression that PPAs were anything
> other than personal as in the name.

would it make sense to somehow automatically modify the PPA build 
daemons so that they include a big debconf warning to each binary 
package that is presented to the user once he installs the package:

This package is not official Ubuntu package. Please contact XXX for the 
support...


what do you think?

just my .2 cents,
Martin