On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 08:07:41PM -0500, James McCoy wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:32:52AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > James McCoy wrote: > > >Part of the reason I chose to use debian/upstream/ is that an extensible > > >location for upstream related information (similar in spirit to > > >debian/source/) could be useful. > > > > I've really wondered, why you didn't use debian/source/ for this purpose > > and introduced another directory? Why not put the key used to sign the > > upstream source right into debian/source/? > > debian/source/ is for content related to the source package. > > debian/upstream/ would be for content related to upstream. > > There's a distinct separation there and as the signing key is, IMO, > obviously upstream metadata it's not appropriate for debian/source/. > The only relation it has to the source package is that it's used to > verify one component of the source package.
I wonder whether you have further files in mind which should end up in debian/upstream/ dir. Could your please give some reasons why you dropped the previously used location, debian/upstream-signing-key.pgp, in favour of introducing a directory which even conflicts with some other file name which is discussed in a DEP-12 without minding any discussion. IMHO, it is simply not the right way to to a grab into the name space without dicussion and creating work for your fellow DDs by doing so. For instance: Do you plan to move the debian/watch file to debian/upstream/ dir as well (or not and if not why not?) If I could see any vision behind your change I would have no problem to follow this vision but even if I have some very slight sympathy from the "esthetics" of naming I consider the principle of "never change a running system" as way more important than some slight esthetical change specifically introduced without any coordination / discussion in the first place. In short: If there is some big plan for a debian/upstream/ dir please lay it out for public discussion. Otherwise I'd be in favour of reverting the change in devscripts. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140210082102.gc3...@an3as.eu