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For those who wonder how the Fedora project plans to migrate its users to anew set of package signing keys, a proposedplan has been posted. It involves an update to the fedora-releasepackage (signed with the old key) which swaps in a new key and repository location, and a slow movement of olderpackages to the new repository. It should work, as long as one is surethat the old key can be trusted for a little longer.

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