[mdekkers]

Wouldn't it already help if apt-key printed the list of keys it imported instead of the absolutely superfluous "OK"?

What would really help: Publishers providing the key in a clear text copy-paste format, and providing instructions on adding the key to apt-key.

[tokenizerrr]

How would this help? They're still pretty unreadable and as the post describes:

> However, two public key blocks could easily have also been exported into a single ASCII-armor block.

[moviuro]

> providing instructions on adding the key to apt-key

    curl | apt-key - # that works

No really, they shouldn't tell you how to add the key to your store. If you don't know how to do that yourself, you shouldn't be admin/superuser. (Also, `man`)