Show PPA key fingerprint on the PPA page

Bug #328402 reported by William Grant
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Medium
Julian Edwards

Bug Description

Before a day or two ago, I could verify that PPA keys I found around on keyservers were actually from Launchpad. Now I have no such luxury; the fingerprint is no longer available. While just the key ID does look nicer, the lack of initial signatures on the key makes them now practically useless. There needs to be a way to retrieve the fingerprint over SSL from Launchpad.

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

The fingerprint appears in the link target, is that not enough?

Changed in soyuz:
status: New → Incomplete
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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

I agree: it would be both a bit more secure and also more straightforward to show it inline.

Changed in soyuz:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Celso Providelo (cprov) wrote :

Right, we can address this detail when we integrate 'installation instructions' specifically for the context PPA inline.

Changed in soyuz:
assignee: nobody → cprov
milestone: none → 2.2.4
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Celso Providelo (cprov)
Changed in soyuz:
milestone: 2.2.4 → none
status: Triaged → New
assignee: cprov → nobody
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dn (nobled) wrote :

The instructions for installing from PPA make no sense now that the fingerprint isn't there. Is that page getting deprecated in favor of the inline installation instructions?

https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA#Adding%20the%20keys%20in%20the%20terminal

Changed in soyuz:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: added: trivial
Changed in soyuz:
milestone: none → 3.0
Changed in soyuz:
assignee: nobody → Michael Nelson (michael.nelson)
Changed in soyuz:
assignee: Michael Nelson (michael.nelson) → Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

Fix in devel r9541

Changed in soyuz:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in soyuz:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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