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

[Maximiliano Curia]

¡Hola Osamu!

El 2017-08-05 a las 01:18 +0900, Osamu Aoki escribió:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 04:33:44PM +0200, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
>> Package: devscripts 
>> Version: 2.17.9 
>> Severity: normal

>> 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?

dpkg-source -b is called by dpkg-buildpackage to generate the source package. 
dpkg-source would pick the orig files in the target directory and it's 
corresponding orig*.{pgp,asc} files.

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