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

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Paul,

> > Perhaps we could also ignore "UNRELEASED" in the distribution? Or
> > is there something else we could check for in the version...?
> 
> […] I only change UNRELEASED to unstable at the very end

I'm sure this is very common. Indeed, I think I do it myself.

Can you think of another way your particular versions could be
detected?


> There is no outright ban on binary ".sig" files, but that discussion
> is leaning towards ".asc"-only signatures.

(This seems like a distinct discussion, so will leave it here.)


Best wishes,

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