Re: Git Packaging: Native source formats

[Andrej Shadura <andrew@shadura.me>]

Hi,

On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 at 12:23, Ian Jackson
<ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Theodore Y. Ts'o writes ("Re: Git Packaging: Native source formats"):
> > Or if we end up moving to dgit for everything, and we don't want to
> > use pristine-tar (which I like, but I realize that's not an opinion
> > shared by everyone; some people seem to hate it), and upstream uses a
> > non-git repo (say, bzr, or hg) and still uses signed tar.gz files, I'd
> > argue we need to have a good way to reserve the cryptographic
> > signature of upstream's foo.tar.gz and foo.tar.gz.asc in a dgit-only
> > world.
>
> I think dgit ought to be compatible with the idea of shipping
> upstream's .asc's about, but maybe there are bugs.  I don't ever do
> this so I don't know if it works and I doubt there are tests for it.
>
> So, if you have a package where you want to use dgit push and you find
> the upstream .asc is not being included, please file bug(s).

I can confirm I was able to upload pristine-lfs with dgit and an upstream .asc.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrej