Comment 5 for bug 344105
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| William Grant (wgrant) wrote Re: [Bug 344105] Re: PPA keys should include username, url or email address | #5 |
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On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 21:48 +0000, Celso Providelo wrote:
> William,
>
> I see your point about excluding 'Signing key' and I agree.
>
> TBH, I prefer the former suggestion, 'Launchpad PPA at <URL>', because
> it pass the right message to the user 'Click on the URL to know what is
> that about.'.
But the LP webapp URL is not the important thing to the user - the
archive URL is. As you say below, the archive URL is not a valid
candidate, so we can't use that. I don't think a less relevant, normally
invisible URL belongs in the name just because the better one can't be
used.
> No unstable, and sometimes meaningless, displaynames in the key UID.
The display name can't be in the UID, as it is mutable. My second
proposal was just a human-readable unambiguous immutable reference to
the archive. It's more readable and less irrelevant than the webapp URL.
> I think that adding the repository URL as the UID comment would be nice,
> but since it varies according the PPA privacy, it's not a good idea.
Right, its mutability removes it from candidacy.
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William Grant