Hi! [ CCing debian-devel to get input from possibly afftected users. ]
On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 15:14:22 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Severity: wishlist > File: /usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage > X-Debbugs-CC: Arno Töll <a...@debian.org> > > Please disable signing by default. Generally the right thing to do for > most dpkg-dev users is to have dpkg-buildpackage *not* auto-sign > anything. Almost all dpkg-dev users (except buildds) should test and > check the package *before* signing and uploading the package. We have a > volunteer for adjusting the buildds (in CC) if needed and I volunteer to > adjust any documentation outside of dpkg-dev that needs changing. The difference between this request and the one about not signing UNRELEASED builds, is that this one has way greater user impact, and the latter is supposedly not meant to be signed (in the general case) anyway. I guess it's probably a good idea to switch the default, becuse I assume most maintainers do more test builds than final ones. Or users who either don't have gpg installed or don't have a gpg key. Although with the current no-signing-UNRELEASED behaviour, the need for -us -uc should have dropped in many cases. In any case, this is about the tool best global default, irrespective of any future possibility of setting local defaults through a configuration file or similar. If most people agree this would be an improvement, and not just an annoyance, I'm happy to do the change. But there's few things that I'd want to tackle first: * signing would get rafactored into a new program so that users do not need to manually mangle the .changes file, rebuild or require devscripts for something that was possible out-of-the-box. * (possibly) new options would get added to specify signing, although there's --force-sign since 1.17.0, which could be used already on the buildds. * (possibly) wait for a grace period with warnings and the above available so that users can switch scripts/programs gracefully, before the flag day. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131230112729.ga16...@gaara.hadrons.org
