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Debian Lenny (5.0) gone stable!

Congratulations for finally releasing Debian Lenny as stable! This sunday will be a great day indeed.

If you encounter this:

W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
4D270D06F42584E6
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

You can safly ignore it and continune doing a dist-upgrade. This warning should go away after the upgrade, since the following key ID is Lenny’s stable public key which is not yet in use. As for now the etch key is still valid and release is signed with both Etch and Lenny keys and the package debian-archive-keyring is yet to be updated in the etch tree as far as I understand it, so that’s probably why we get the warning. This has todo with this post on the mailing list:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/01/msg00008.html

We could import the Lenny key  even if Debian is not officially using it before Etch’s key has expired or Debian Lenny R1 is released. This is atleast how you fetch the fingerprint of the key ID:

gpg –keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net –fingerprint 4D270D06F42584E6
pub   1024D/F42584E6 2008-04-06 [expires: 2012-05-15]
Key fingerprint = 7F5A 4445 4C72 4A65 CBCD  4FB1 4D27 0D06 F425 84E6
uid                  Lenny Stable Release Key <debian-release@lists.debian.org>

Verify the fingerprint towards this page: http://ftp-master.debian.org/keys.html

If they match, go on and import it:

gpg –keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net –recv-keys 4D270D06F42584E6

gpg –keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net –recv-keys 4D270D06F42584E6
gpg: directory `/root/.gnupg’ created
gpg: can’t open `/gnupg/options.skel’: No such file or directory
gpg: keyring `/root/.gnupg/secring.gpg’ created
gpg: keyring `/root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg’ created
gpg: requesting key F42584E6 from hkp server wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net
gpg: /root/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key F42584E6: public key “Lenny Stable Release Key <debian-release@lists.debian.org>” imported
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1

gpg –armor –export 4D270D06F42584E6 | apt-key add -

Have a nice sunday upgrading!

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