R SIG Debian - Jun 2025 - GPG key for Debian repository

Has the key changed? According to https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/debian/ I
should be able to get a key via

```

gpg

--keyserver

keyserver.ubuntu.com

\

--recv-key

'95C0FAF38DB3CCAD0C080A7BDC78B2DDEABC47B7'

```

But on my Debian "bookworm" systems I am getting

```

gpg --keyserver
keyserver.ubuntu.com
\

--recv-key '95C0FAF38DB3CCAD0C080A7BDC78B2DDEABC47B7'

gpg: directory '/home/znmeb/.gnupg' created

gpg: keybox '/home/znmeb/.gnupg/pubring.kbx' created

gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a failure

```

Am I doing something wrong, or has the key changed?

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On 17 June 2025 at 01:45, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
| Has the key changed? According to https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/debian/ I
should be able to get a key via
| 
|   $ gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key
'95C0FAF38DB3CCAD0C080A7BDC78B2DDEABC47B7'
| 
| But on my Debian "bookworm" systems I am getting
| 
|   $ gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key
'95C0FAF38DB3CCAD0C080A7BDC78B2DDEABC47B7'
|   gpg: directory '/home/znmeb/.gnupg' created
|   gpg: keybox '/home/znmeb/.gnupg/pubring.kbx' created
|   gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a failure
| 
| Am I doing something wrong, or has the key changed?

That is an error message you are getting from a particular remote
server. Have you tried another? Could you have network issues? PGP/GPG use a
network of mirroring servers.

For what it is worth, it works here in a Debian container (using my
rocker/r-base container here) after I 'apt install gpg dirmngr':

  root at cd7dcc85a57f:/# gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key
'95C0FAF38DB3CCAD0C080A7BDC78B2DDEABC47B7'
  gpg: /root/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
  gpg: key DC78B2DDEABC47B7: public key "Johannes Ranke <johannes.ranke
at jrwb.de>" imported
  gpg: error running '/usr/bin/gpg-agent': probably not installed
  gpg: failed to start gpg-agent '/usr/bin/gpg-agent': Configuration
error
  gpg: can't connect to the gpg-agent: Configuration error
  gpg: Total number processed: 1
  gpg:               imported: 1
  root at cd7dcc85a57f:/# 

Dirk

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