Russ Allbery writes: > Ansgar Burchardt <ans...@debian.org> writes: >> The client tool could possibly also just create the .dsc and .changes, >> except for hashes of the compressed files, and the web service just >> recreate the tarball and compress them. > > I think experience with pristine-tar indicates that recreating tarballs is > unfortunately not trivial.
pristine-tar tries to recreate an arbitrary tarball that was created by a third-party; in this case both sides are controlled by the same party. Using the uncompressed tarballs also avoids possible problems from the compression algorithm. This is a simpler problem than what pristine-tar tries to solve. For upstream tarballs, one can fetch them from the upstream source if matching the upstream release is desired. Ansgar
