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by Benjamin_Dobell 2778 days ago
> Debian has a relatively small set of trusted package maintainers and doesn't let just anyone put code in the official distribution

There are presently 2619 official Debian maintainer GPG keys[1].

Considering the scope, that's not ridiculous, but I wouldn't call it small.

[1] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-keyring/