McGee: The real story behind Arch Linux package signing

As an avid LWN reader and Arch user, I must mention that, the former article must have been drafted after taking into consideration different independent sources (like contacting the developers of pacman, the community through mailing list like how jzb did for Slackware article) rather than jumping the gun based on a blog by a single person who may have had more than just a technical gripe with the development team.