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Debian Developer's Reference - Chapter 3
Maintaining Your Debian Information


3.1 Maintaining Your Public Key

Be very careful with your private keys. Do not place them on any public servers. Back them up. Read the documentation that comes with your software (either PGP or GNUPG); read the FAQs too, for good measure.

If you add or remove signatures from your public key, or add or remove user identities, you need to update the key servers and mail your public key to keyring-maint@debian.org. The same key extraction routines from Registering as a Debian developer, section 2.2 apply.


3.2 Retiring Gracefully

If you choose to leave the Debian project, you should make sure you do the following steps:

  1. Orphan all your packages, as described in Orphaning a package, section 9.4.

  2. Send an email about how you are leaving the project to debian-private@lists.debian.org.

  3. Notify the Debian key ring maintainers that you are leaving by emailing to keyring-maint@debian.org.


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Debian Developer's Reference
ver. 2.6.0, 11 February, 1999
Adam Di Carlo, current maintainer aph@debian.org
Christian Schwarz schwarz@debian.org
Ian Jackson ijackson@gnu.ai.mit.edu