On Thu 2014-08-28 11:47:17 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 08/27/2014 11:06 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: >> Ah, hmmm, yeah make sense. It also does really make sense as an >> additional file alongside the others referenced from the .dsc >> metadata. As a minor detail, the .asc would not be included in the >> .changes file when the orig.tar is not included either in the upload. > > sure, that makes sense. > >> I'm thinking dpkg-source would automatically include it if it finds it >> side by side the orig.tar. > > I like that. > >> But I'm not comfortable just adding it as is, >> I'd probably want to bump the minor version of the format. As this gets >> us to the problem that we currently conflate the .dsc file format version >> with the actual source format version. > > I think you're saying you'd bump the minor version of the .dsc format,
Is this something that can be done for dpkg before the jessie freeze? I
don't think we need dpkg to actually do the file verification steps or
warnings or anything -- just accepting the .asc without complaint would
be clear the path for the rest of the archive-related tools (apt,
sbuild, dak, etc) to head in that direction.
Regards,
--dkg
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