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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 07:35:32PM +0200, Ladislav Hagara wrote:
> >
> > The individual keys would still be binaries...so we'd now have lots of
> >
> > little binaries instead of one big one?
> >
> 
> If big keyring is changed it is very difficult to check what was changed.
> How many keys was changed?
> How many keys was added/removed (intentionally/unintentionally)?
> 
> If one individual key is changed it is easy to check for example really 
> there is a new maintainer of wget.
> 

Im pretty sure that whatever sends review emails is just a script, it
could be modified to notice if a file is a binary .gpg file and instead
of stopping there, diff the output of gpg --list-keys on the current and
previous version of the file. Same could be done with some scripting
glue over p4 describe on the client side.