Bug#544366: devscripts: debsign wont sign if DEBRELEASE_DEBS_DIR set to unexisting dir but changes specified

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hello,

can someone look into this bug? I'm very annoyed by it too. And I fully
agree with Emilio's interpretation.

DEBRELEASE_DEBS_DIR should only be looked up if I don't specify a .changes
files to sign.

It makes absolulety no sense to consider the argument as a filename to
look up in another directory. What would be the use case?

Furthermore, I have set DEBRELEASE_DEBS_DIR so that "debrelease" does
the right thing for me with git-buildpackage
--git-export-dir=../build-area/ and I'm pretty annoyed that it gets in the
way when I want to sign a random .dsc/.changes file.

Note that the same problem also affects "debc" and "debi":
$ debc xsane_0.998-6_amd64.changes 
debc: config file specified DEBRELEASE_DEBS_DIR directory ../build-area does not exist!
$ debi xsane_0.998-6_amd64.changes 
debi: config file specified DEBRELEASE_DEBS_DIR directory ../build-area does not exist!

Thank you in advance!
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