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[Reinhard Tartler]

Free Ekanayaka <freee at debian.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> |--==> On Wed, 27 May 2009 10:08:59 +1000, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at gmail.com> said:
>
>   FS> El miércoles 27 de mayo, Grammostola Rosea escribió:
>   >>Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>   >>>  - no pristine-tar branch, please use pristine-tar to integrate your
>   >>>    orig.tar.gz to the repository.
>   >>
>   >>pristine-tar branch?
>
>   FS> Look for the pristine-tar utility, and read its
>   FS> documentation. When importing new upstreams, you can pass a flag
>   FS> to git-import-orig to do it for you, but since you already
>   FS> imported it, you will have to fiddle manually with pristine-
>   FS> tar.
>
> Guys, I must have missed something here.. When did we decide to use
> pristine-tar in the first place? I admit I'm not using it at all ATM.

I think we didn't, at least not explicitly. I'm working on a lot of
package that need some munging (mplayer, ffmpeg, etc) and for these
packages, pristine-tar is very helpful IME. Since it very well
integrated into git-buildpackage, it's also very convenient to use.

However I wouldn't go so far as mandating it for packages that don't
need any changes to the upstream source and have a clean and useable
debian/watch file.

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4