.sig files on SF ?

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Sat Jul 2 12:38:05 EDT 2011


On zaterdag 2 juli 2011, John Ralls wrote:
> On Jul 2, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > On Sat, July 2, 2011 11:50 am, Geert Janssens wrote:
> >> I notice that older documentation uploads are accompanied by a .sig
> >> file. How
> >> is that generated, and should I generate one also ?
> > 
> > My guess is they are PGP/GPG signatures.  I have no idea what key is used
> > or who has access to it.
> 
> The current Gnome practice is to make a text file with a SHA-256 hash of
> the tarball.
> 
> I think that such files are more trouble than they're worth and besides
> make little sense for documentation. We don't do anything with the program
> files, where it might make some sense, so I wouldn't bother with the docs.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
Ok, I'll just ignore that file then.

Geert


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