On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, Russ Allbery wrote: > > And anyway I'd say that downloading the original archive is simpler than > > having to deal with pristine-tar... > > I'm mystified. What is there to deal with? I literally never touch it. > It just works, completely transparently and silently.
Unfortunately not. Creating a pristine-tar with Debian/stable results in one of my cases *consistently* in problems creating the orig.tar. Look into the bug reports of pristine-tar, it is a long list of orig.tar that cannot be recreated. THis is the prime reason why I want to get rid of all the pristine-tar stuff in my repos, but unfortunately there is no alternative. And no, Marco, having the .tar.gz in the repo is *not* a solution for several 100 Mb orig.tar, not to speak of several instances of it. I would gladly start trying to debug pristine tar, but upstream has abandoned it after I send a bug report (what coincidence), and there is no hinto from upstream what could be the problem. So, in short words, pristine-tar is dead, and dangerous. But still extremely useful! Which is a painful combination. Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140819142524.gk5...@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at
