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

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 04:33:44PM +0200, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> Package: devscripts
> Version: 2.17.9
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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.

Excuse me .. I don't get what you are after.  

  dpkg-source - Debian source package (.dsc) manipulation tool

dpkg-source -x ***.dsc extracts the source from the tarball which is
signed by the packager (not upstream).  Why you are using dpkg-source on
the upstream source tarball?

Regards,

Osamu