On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > If the package maintainers use the pristine-tar tool to efficiently store > > a byte-for-byte copy of the upstream tarballs, this should be done in the > > `pristine-tar` branch. > > Please discourage the use of pristine-tar. The format is fragile and can > suffer from bit rot.
The DEP will neither encourage and discourage its use. It only mentions that if a maintainer is using it, it should store pristine-tar data in the "pristine-tar" branch. FWIW, I do use pristine-tar and I find it really useful even though I know that some day my old pristine-tar data will be unusable. It's not a big deal since we have snapshot.debian.org and archive.debian.org for those cases. The point of the pristine-tar data is to help contributors who are cooperating right now, it's not to make sure we can recreate the same old .orig.tar.gz in 10 years from now (even though it would have been nice if it achieved this). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- 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/20141112082833.gb27...@home.ouaza.com