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diff --git a/doc/apt-key.8.xml b/doc/apt-key.8.xml
index 1ab4d784e..2c8c3f655 100644
--- a/doc/apt-key.8.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-key.8.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
<!-- Man page title -->
<refnamediv>
<refname>apt-key</refname>
- <refpurpose>APT key management utility</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>Deprecated APT key management utility</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
&synopsis-command-apt-key;
@@ -37,13 +37,15 @@
authenticated using these keys will be considered trusted.
</para>
<para>
- Note that if usage of <command>apt-key</command> is desired the additional
+ Use of <command>apt-key</command> is deprecated, except for the use of
+ <command>apt-key del</command> in maintainer scripts to remove existing
+ keys from the main keyring.
+ If such usage of <command>apt-key</command> is desired the additional
installation of the GNU Privacy Guard suite (packaged in
- <package>gnupg</package>) is required. For this reason alone the programmatic
- usage (especially in package maintainer scripts!) is strongly discouraged.
- Further more the output format of all commands is undefined and can and does
- change whenever the underlying commands change. <command>apt-key</command> will
- try to detect such usage and generates warnings on stderr in these cases.
+ <package>gnupg</package>) is required.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ apt-key(8) will last be available in Debian 11 and Ubuntu 22.04.
</para>
</refsect1>
@@ -63,7 +65,7 @@
<refsect1><title>Commands</title>
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry><term><option>add</option> <option>&synopsis-param-filename;</option></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>add</option> <option>&synopsis-param-filename;</option> (deprecated)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Add a new key to the list of trusted keys.
@@ -85,7 +87,7 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term><option>del</option> <option>&synopsis-param-keyid;</option></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>del</option> <option>&synopsis-param-keyid;</option> (mostly deprecated)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
@@ -96,7 +98,7 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term><option>export</option> <option>&synopsis-param-keyid;</option></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>export</option> <option>&synopsis-param-keyid;</option> (deprecated)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
@@ -107,7 +109,7 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term><option>exportall</option></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>exportall</option> (deprecated)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
@@ -118,7 +120,7 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term><option>list</option>, <option>finger</option></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>list</option>, <option>finger</option> (deprecated)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
@@ -129,7 +131,7 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term><option>adv</option></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>adv</option> (deprecated)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Pass advanced options to gpg. With <command>adv --recv-key</command> you
@@ -160,7 +162,7 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term><option>net-update</option></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>net-update</option> (deprecated)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
@@ -183,7 +185,7 @@
<refsect1><title>Options</title>
<para>Note that options need to be defined before the commands described in the previous section.</para>
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry><term><option>--keyring</option> <option>&synopsis-param-filename;</option></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>--keyring</option> <option>&synopsis-param-filename;</option> (deprecated)</term>
<listitem><para>With this option it is possible to specify a particular keyring
file the command should operate on. The default is that a command is executed
on the <filename>trusted.gpg</filename> file as well as on all parts in the