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

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi,

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Filippo Rusconi wrote:
> I discovered recently that upstream was to become a directory in
> debian/. While I think that such a choice might be a reasonably good
> idea, I have to admit my astonishment at the total absence of
> information/discussion around that matter, from the side of the
> devscripts folks, as this choice fell us--designers and happy users of
> debian/upstream as a file totally out of the blue.

This change was also suggested by Guillem Jover in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=735840#20 and I tend
to agree with the logic of grouping upstream related meta-data
in a single directory.

That said I also agree that this change is mainly a matter of coherence
and esthetics and thus should not break anything and thus everything
should support both locations for a long period of time.

YMMV.
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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