[Python-Dev] [python-committers] Do we need to sign Windows files with GnuPG?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 03.04.2015 11:56, Larry Hastings wrote:
> My Windows development days are firmly behind me.  So I don't really have an opinion here.  So I put
> it to you, Windows Python developers: do you care about GnuPG signatures on Windows-specific files? 
> Or do you not care?

Regardless of target platform, I firmly believe we should (continue to)
GPG sign all distribution files as well as provide hash files/values
for them.

This is very useful to detect corrupted downloads or files which
were not created by the original packagers.

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