Bug#870069: orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature error breaks rebuilding existing packages and more

[Paul Hardy <unifoundry@gmail.com>]

Chris,

On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
> Paul,
>
>> Oh, I see.  Personally, my only concern was that a lintian error would
>> prevent an uploaded, released package from migrating to testing.
>
> Hm? Lintian has no effect on migrations from unstable to testing.

I never knew that, mainly because I never tried getting a package
uploaded in that state.  The whole thing caught me off guard.

> ...
> See #870722. This was fixed in 4th August in:
>
>   https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=126157380dc0eba302f3d476b1cffc13f968c207

That is great.  The next lintian release should be able to close this
bug then, unless Stefan disagrees.

Thank you!


Paul Hardy