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I am transitioning my GPG key from an old 1024-bit key to a new 4096-bit key.
The old key will continue to be valid for some time, but I prefer all new
correspondence to be encrypted for the new key, and will be making all
signatures going forward with the new key.

If you have signed my old key, I would appreciate signatures on my new key as
well, provided that your signing policy permits that without reauthenticating
me.

The old key, which I am transitioning away from, is:

pub   1024D/99E141B4 2004-02-10
      Key fingerprint = 25FE 4741 4770 0558 949D  1DB1 58DD 3FE2 99E1 41B4

The new key, to which I am transitioning, is:

pub   4096R/51B85139 2009-06-18
      Key fingerprint = A3EB B41F C5AB D675 CEE4  1C45 EA6C A6B9 51B8 5139

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Micha Lenk
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All of a sudden a Debian Developer came and uploaded my Debian package to the official Debian archive, where it became official part of the Debian distribution. Henceforth the Debian Developer guided me on how to properly package Debian packages and on improving my packages. I learned a lot and became more and more familiar with Debian's procedures and tools.

As the time passed by, he encouraged me to apply as a Debian Developer. So I did. It was again a time of challenging tasks to be done, but as the other Debian Developer managing my application was very short in time, I also had to be very patient for a long time again and again. To cut a long story short: After more than three years of mostly waiting and contributing to Debian as good as I could, I finally have become official Debian Developer on September, the 13^st 2009.

I'm happy that I eventually made it. And, at this stage it is time to say thank you to all of the fellow Debian Developers who kindly sponsored my uploads or encouraged me to keep on going. You've all done a wonderful job and were of great help to me.

I'm going to this year's Debian developers meeting, the DebConf9.

Unfortunately the conference overlaps with even more important events, so I will only be there half the time from 27^th of July, but I will stay to the end. Being a first time visitor of DebConf I'm curious about what's going to happen there and about getting in touch with all the other geeks... *grin* — See you there!

If you're a Debian Etch user you can add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list, run apt-get update and install it with aptitude install icedove.

  deb http://micha.lenk.info/debian etch/

You can find the backport here.

  deb http://micha.lenk.info/debian etch/

Unfortunately it seems to be quite instabile, so be warned...