Hello,

Osamu Aoki [20/Jan  4:16pm +09] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2026-01-19 at 21:16 +0000, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> Hello Osamu, hope you are doing good.
>>
>> Actually, debian/source/local-options is never compatible with dgit or
>> tag2upload.  Only debian/source/options is acceptable.  So I would
>> suggest never creating that file.
>
> Got your point.  But I have question.
>
> (I am going to add these templates with .ex suffix, so there should be no 
> actual
> issue.)
>
> I am curious about extent of your "never compatible" statement.
>
> According to dpkg-source(1)manpage , lines preceded by "#" are ignored for
> both debian/source/options and debian/source/local-options.
>
> Does dgit workflow chokes on these files having all lines preceded by "#" ?

No, the debian/source/local-options file can never exist no matter its
contents.

The reason is that its existence breaks dgit's basic design principle:
there is no difference between the git tree and the exported source
package.  local-options only exists in git and not in the exported
source package, by definition.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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