[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#707820: pristine-tar: Fails with "paranoia check failed on params from delta (-z -6) at /usr/bin/pristine-xz line 195" on fonts-android package git repository

[Christian Perrier]

Package: pristine-tar
Version: 1.25
Severity: normal

Hello Joey,

/me and my fellow co-maintainers of font packages are happily
switching to git for our packages maintenance.

As of now, things went well, but I ran today on a problem I can't
solve alone with the fonts-android git repository.

The repo is :
gbp-clone git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-fonts/fonts-android.git

Running "git-buildpackage --git-pristine-tar" there fails with:
dh clean
dh_testdir
dh_auto_clean
dh_clean
paranoia check failed on params from delta (-z -6) at /usr/bin/pristine-xz line 195.
pristine-tar: command failed: pristine-xz --no-verbose --no-debug --no-keep genxz /tmp/pristine-tar.fSCIGUDGxo/wrapper /tmp/pristine-tar.Q9SQAWvPld/fonts-android_4.2.r1.orig.tar.xz.tmp
pristine-tar: failed to generate tarball
gbp:error: Couldn't checkout "fonts-android_4.2.r1.orig.tar.xz": /usr/bin/pristine-tar returned 255

Manually running pristine-tar gives the same result:
bubulle at sesostris:~/src/debian/pkg-fonts/git/fonts-android(master) $ pristine-tar checkout ../fonts-android_4.2.r1.orig.tar.xz
paranoia check failed on params from delta (-z -6) at /usr/bin/pristine-xz line 195.
pristine-tar: command failed: pristine-xz --no-verbose --no-debug --no-keep genxz /tmp/pristine-tar.vQaW96SfM9/wrapper /tmp/pristine-tar.eUl5Ardku2/fonts-android_4.2.r1.orig.tar.xz.tmp
pristine-tar: failed to generate tarball


My build machine is still running wheezy and therefore has
pristine-tar version 1.25

My fellow co-maintainers do not have this problem with a sid machine
(and pristine-tar 1.28).

Is that a known problem?



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pristine-tar depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0    1.0.6-4
ii  libc6         2.17-1
ii  perl-modules  5.14.2-21
ii  xdelta        1.1.3-9
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

Versions of packages pristine-tar recommends:
ii  bzip2     1.0.6-4
ii  pbzip2    1.1.8-1
ii  xz-utils  5.1.1alpha+20120614-2

pristine-tar suggests no packages.

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