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Bug#1108267: git-debpush should allow selecting the key to sign with

From	Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#1108267: git-debpush should allow selecting the key to sign with
Date	2025-07-18 11:10 +0200
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Hello,

On Thu 17 Jul 2025 at 10:43am +01, Ian Jackson wrote:

> What is blocking us here is the fact that we don't really know other
> people's use cases, and we've got hung up on DEBEMAIL etc.  We think
> we know Andrej's use case.  (I spoke to Andrej about this irl.)
>
> I suggest that we change git-debpush to honour DEBSIGN_KEYID in the
> environment (as debsign does) and call this bug done.  It would
> override git config and the default, but be overridden by -u.
>
> I think this doesn't prevent us possiby honouring DEBEMAIL and
> DEBFULLNAME later (for tagger field, or key selectdion).
>
> Sean, does this SGTY?

Yes, I think this is okay.  We should probably be willing to change our
mind with an incompatible change if it turns out this is the wrong
default for large numbers of people.

-- 
Sean Whitton

Thread

Bug#1108267: git-debpush should allow selecting the key to sign with Andrej Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org> - 2025-06-24 15:10 +0200
  Bug#1108267: git-debpush should allow selecting the key to sign with Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-06-24 18:00 +0200
    Bug#1108267: git-debpush should allow selecting the key to sign with "Andrej Shadura" <andrewsh@debian.org> - 2025-06-24 18:40 +0200
      Bug#1108267: git-debpush should allow selecting the key to sign with Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-06-24 18:40 +0200
  Bug#1108267: git-debpush should allow selecting the key to sign with Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-06-24 18:40 +0200
    Bug#1108267: git-debpush should allow selecting the key to sign with Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-06-25 11:50 +0200
      Bug#1108267: git-debpush should allow selecting the key to sign with "Andrej Shadura" <andrewsh@debian.org> - 2025-06-25 11:50 +0200
        Bug#1108267: git-debpush should allow selecting the key to sign with Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-07-17 13:50 +0200
          Bug#1108267: git-debpush should allow selecting the key to sign with Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-07-17 13:50 +0200
          Bug#1108267: git-debpush should allow selecting the key to sign with Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-18 11:10 +0200
  Bug#1108267: Newcomer bugs Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-08-06 17:00 +0200

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