On 13/01/17 18:56, Guido Günther wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 06:21:24PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > > Package: pristine-tar > > Version: 1.37 > > Severity: normal > > > > Hi, > > importing lbzip2 fails with: > > > [...] > > libxfce4ui, nsis, thunar-volman, thunar, tumbler, xfce4-cpufreq-plugin, > xfce4-dev-tools, xfce4-dict, xfce4-weather-plugin fail with the same > error so I'm not filing separate reports. > Cheers, > -- Guido
I didn't check all of these packages, but indeed they do not reproduce. However, note that these packages do not use pristine-tar (or gbp, if my sample was significant), so nobody ever tried to reproduce their tarballs with pristine-tar. :) The issue we have here is that it is impossible to "gbp import-dsc ..." a random package, because in general tarballs are messy. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks as if you don't intend to actually keep pristine-tar for anything more than temporary help to use gbp with the imported package? If the answer is yes, then I propose to introduce a mode to pristine-tar that will: (1) try to import the given tarball using the standard machinery and if that fails (2) import the final tarball as-it-is. This sort of defeats the whole idea of pristine-tar, but may be a necessary evil for this sort of use and will not harm anyone if people won't use it to actually import tarballs into long-term package repositories. What do you think? Tomasz
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