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

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

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 did not think it should be a lintian error, because not having the
> file does not violate Debian Policy.

See #870722. This was fixed in 4th August in:

  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=126157380dc0eba302f3d476b1cffc13f968c207

:)


Regards,

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