John Darrington (cc'd here), who maintains the GNUbik package, made this suggestion:
> With the new ftp upload procedures, shouldn't the automake targets be > changed appropriately? In particular: > > The dist target should generate the package.tar.gz.asc file and the > dist-check target should verify that this signature is indeed valid. I myself don't think it should be part of dist and distcheck. Doing the signature requires typing the pass phrase. It often takes a dozen runs of dist[check] before the release is actually ready (at least for me). I would be quite annoyed at having to do the signature stuff on every test run. Having a separate target to do it, however, could be useful. Maybe even make the directive file and sign it, too, with a variable that defaults to $PACKAGE for the directory name. (Some variables would also be necessary for the gpg invocations, of course.) What do you think? Best, karl
