Bug#870281: uscan: symlink/rename detached upstream signature files when symlinking/renaming the orig file

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at debian.org
Fri Aug 11 16:37:44 UTC 2017


On Mon 2017-07-31 16:33:44 +0200, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> uscan checks the detached upstream signature with the 
> debian/upstream/signing-key.asc keyring when downloading a new version, which 
> is great. But the file is then not renamed/symlinked so dpkg-source can't use 
> this signature file, so it's then not included in the .changes files.
>
> Please, when renaming/symlinking the downloaded file, do the same with the 
> downloaded detached upstream signature.

just chiming in to say that i think this is the right change to make --
we should make it as easy as possible to include the upstream package
signatures in the debian archive.  ideally debian developers won't even
have to think about it :)

     --dkg
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