Bug#920763: lintian: orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature interacts poorly with mode=git,pgpmode=gittag

["Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi dkg,

> > Lintian "cannot" talk to external sources, so this is out alas…
> 
> How about talking to the local git repository, if it's operating in one?
> does that count as an "external" source?

I'm afraid it would, and would not be visible on lintian.d.o, and
would also give different results in different environments. Whilst
there is no strict written policy about this anywhere, this just
feels "kinda" wrong, alas.


Best wishes,

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