Hi, I tried to investigate further: I tried to call pristine-tar by hand, but under strace to see what it was doing.
It doesn't look like it reads any configuration file in my home directory ; but in fact, looking for "elpi_3.7.1.orig.tar.gz", I see it in the execve command line right at the start, and in a newfsstatat. That is all! I created a dummy user on my system and tried to gbp clone then gbp import-orig --uscan on the elpi repository: it failed with the very same error message! That looks even less like a configuration issue. I don't know how to test in a chroot. I suspect a corrupted file somewhere... Cheers, JP
