Hi Tobias,

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 02:06:08PM +0100, Dr. Tobias Quathamer wrote:
> there's already an annotated tag with the same name (debian/1.1.0-2) in the
> git repository.

Unfortunately not, the tag is neither signed nor annotated:

# git show debian/1.1.0-2       
commit 7c465867c85c4ed3c70ebe912355fbf8d3ce5971
Author: Dr. Tobias Quathamer <to...@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Nov 15 14:26:53 2016 +0100

    Prepare release

(You can tell since it points directly to a commit object.)

> If I sign the tag, I would need to delete the remote tag and push it again.
> This would mess with everybody's git clone'd local repository. I'm not sure
> that would be wise.

It should be fine if you correct the tag as long as it has been announced.

I recently had half a dozen backports where I had to force-push new
tags because my sponsor modified the changelog after the request ;-).

> I suggest that you put the above mentioned ~/gbp.conf stanza into
> debian/gbp.conf, the file already exists. This way, the next uploader would
> sign the tag, even if they don't have this option in their home directory.

Good suggestion. Should we make this a default for all golang- packages?

Regards,
Peter

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