On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Please discourage the use of pristine-tar. The format is fragile and can > > suffer from bit rot. > > I strongly disagree with this advice. pristine-tar is hugely helpful, and > is something we should continue to support, advocate, maintain, and use.
Unfortunately it is so broken, that too often orig tarballs cannot be recreated. Especially with pristinetar data generated in a stable system one is often lost. I used pristinetar for years, and now try to move away from it, as it turned out to be too unstable, and too dependent on tar's internalities. But I agree, that the *idea* of pristinetar is great, only that it does not work as it is now. Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 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/20141112003120.gd19...@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at