[Pkg-puppet-devel] "since prinstine-tar is known to be broken" [was: Re: packaging puppet and clojure ITPs]

[Gabriel Filion]

Hi,

just taking things sideways for a little while.

I still consider myself quite new to packaging since there are still so
much situations where I don't know how things should be done and their
considerations and implications.

so I'd like to know a bit more about this declaration:

On 2020-07-05 1:13 p.m., Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Doing this, someone doesn't need pristine-tar. Since pristine-tar is
> known to be broken anyway (I did experience this myself...)

I personally am not certain to understand the end-goal of pristine-tar
and how it actually achieves it. I've read wiki pages about it and I
didn't feel like after reading the description of the original
problematic that lead up to pristine-tar in the first place I was
actually able to grasp the nature of the problematic.

... with that context in place, I'm wondering how pristine-tar is broken
and if you would be so kind as to summarize an example situation around
this that you experienced first-hand.


cheers!

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