[Dnsmasq-discuss] Announce: dnsmasq-2.69

[Simon Kelley]

On 09/04/14 21:32, Dave Reisner wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 09:13:33PM +0100, Simon Kelley wrote:
>> Dnsmasq-2.69 is here.
>>
>> http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/dnsmasq-2.69.tar.gz
>>
>> and (new) a signature
>>
>> http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/dnsmasq-2.69.tar.gz.sign
>>
> 
> Hi Simon,
> 
> Thanks for providing GPG signatures for the source tarballs. Could I ask
> why you've chosen this particular extension? 

Ignorance, plain and simple. I'm new to this stuff, and not familiar
with the conventions.

> GPG normally expects .asc
> (ascii armored) or .sig (raw binary) extensions so this is somewhat
> unexpexcted. Verification still works, but it's not documented anywhere
> in gpg's manpage as an expected extension. To complicate matters
> somewhat more, kernel.org uses .sign as an extension but treats the
> situation differently -- they provide a single .sign file but multiple
> compression formats for the source tarballs. The signature validates
> against the decompressed tarball. This doesn't seem to be the case here,
> as the .sign validates against the gzip tarball.
> 
> I humbly ask that you use .asc for the signature.
> 
Sounds sensible, I'll change it now, before any dependencies form on my
initial setup.


Cheers,


Simon.