From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>,
Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>,
24461@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24461: Signing Emacs git release tags
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 18:22:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmP=TwtQKgkJ5uaVoqaZ3rgSxkTSKwmh6jxcxq=P_tc1A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2y7krzf.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org>
Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:
> In any case, after originally filing this, I noticed that you had signed
> commits, and I just rely on those now. So while it might still be nice
> to have signed tags (too), it's not all that important to me anymore.
I think signing tags is different than signing commits. A signed tag
means you can have more trust that you are using the code with the
latest fix to security problem X, announced to have been released in
tagged Emacs version Y, and not code missing that fix.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-29 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-18 18:12 bug#24461: Signing Emacs git release tags Rob Browning
2016-09-18 19:49 ` John Wiegley
2016-09-18 21:09 ` Nicolas Petton
2019-09-29 4:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-29 16:05 ` Rob Browning
2019-09-29 16:22 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2019-09-29 17:24 ` Rob Browning
2022-01-24 10:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-21 14:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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