Lone developer
January 7, 2010 – 6:05 pm by AbsintheSyringeI’ve been around Debian for some time, however am not a “official” Debian Developer and I can’t become “overnight” because country I live in (Bosnia) and I have no one to sign my key. I doubt I could easily do it in Croatia or Serbia my neighboring countries. This is definitely another reason why I’m pursuing to have DebConf11 in Balkans (read: Bosnia).
I didn’t get my key signed on DebConf9 since I hesitated whether to keep my old DSA 768 bit key or not. However by the end of this month I’m planning to visit some friends on TUWIEN and planing to meet up with some DD from Vienna and get my key signed. Btw I’d like to use this opportunity to call all DD residing in Vienna (Rhonda?) to contact me 
So what am talking about after all? Thunderbird 3.0 was released 29 ago, Icedove 3.0 is in experimental but only arm and i386 arch. and I’m using amd64. … After I kept bothering nice people at #debian-buildd they told me to make my own, and once I built my own I don’t have permissions to upload it to ftp-mater … there’s no sense I upload it through mentors …
So I’m making my Icedove amd64 packages available if you want them:
http://foolcontrol.org/deb/icedove-3.0_3.0~rc2-2_amd64.deb
http://foolcontrol.org/deb/icedove-3.0-gnome-support_3.0~rc2-2_amd64.deb
http://foolcontrol.org/deb/icedove-3.0-dbg_3.0~rc2-2_amd64.debI didn’t even change the maintainer name, I kept it all as original package, except it’s now available for amd64 architecture, hopefully we’ll see these on Debian servers as well
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8 Responses to “Lone developer”
No no no. DSA is horrible, as the use of a nonce in signing a message results in the trivial exposure of the entire private key, which we know from the entire Debian random number generator fiasco.
Browser -By Matthew W. S. Bell on Jan 8, 2010
Yes, that’s why I hesitated, in the I changed it to my new RSA 4096 key
Browser -By AbsintheSyringe on Jan 8, 2010
So, why don’t you contact *me* instead of waiting wether I would stumble upon your blog posting and notice that you mentioned me? *poke*
Just drop by at a http://debienna.at/ meeting (every thursday) and if you tell me beforehand I can try to get other DDs/people to be around to get your key signed by more people.
See you, and looking forward to meeting you again!
Rhonda
Browser -By Gerfried Fuchs on Jan 8, 2010
Stumbled upon? I knew you’d come
Awesome, see you soon
Browser -By AbsintheSyringe on Jan 8, 2010
Also, if you manage, come to http://www.fosdem.org/
Browser -It’s worth it each time!
By mirabilos on Jan 10, 2010
I’ll seriously consider this option!
Browser -By AbsintheSyringe on Jan 10, 2010
It though was by accident rather than that you could should have depended on it. I guess you know how to reach me by mail or jabber – so please do it there to give me more detailed informations, I won’t go dig your blog in a polling way for the exact date you drop by.
Browser -By Gerfried Fuchs on Jan 11, 2010
I was joking
I know, I will let you know on everything 
Browser -By AbsintheSyringe on Jan 11, 2010