Bug#736760: Conflict between debian/upstream (DEP-12) & debian/upstream/ (uscan)

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 08:07:41PM -0500, James McCoy wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:32:52AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> > James McCoy wrote:
> > >Part of the reason I chose to use debian/upstream/ is that an extensible
> > >location for upstream related information (similar in spirit to
> > >debian/source/) could be useful. 
> > 
> > I've really wondered, why you didn't use debian/source/ for this purpose
> > and introduced another directory? Why not put the key used to sign the
> > upstream source right into debian/source/?
> 
> debian/source/ is for content related to the source package.
> 
> debian/upstream/ would be for content related to upstream.
> 
> There's a distinct separation there and as the signing key is, IMO,
> obviously upstream metadata it's not appropriate for debian/source/.
> The only relation it has to the source package is that it's used to
> verify one component of the source package.

I wonder whether you have further files in mind which should end up in
debian/upstream/ dir.  Could your please give some reasons why you
dropped the previously used location, debian/upstream-signing-key.pgp,
in favour of introducing a directory which even conflicts with some
other file name which is discussed in a DEP-12 without minding any
discussion.  IMHO, it is simply not the right way to to a grab into the
name space without dicussion and creating work for your fellow DDs by
doing so.

For instance:  Do you plan to move the debian/watch file to
debian/upstream/ dir as well (or not and if not why not?)

If I could see any vision behind your change I would have no problem to
follow this vision but even if I have some very slight sympathy from the
"esthetics" of naming I consider the principle of "never change a
running system" as way more important than some slight esthetical change
specifically introduced without any coordination / discussion in the
first place.

In short: If there is some big plan for a debian/upstream/ dir please
lay it out for public discussion.  Otherwise I'd be in favour of
reverting the change in devscripts.

Kind regards

          Andreas.

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