Package: pristine-tar Version: 1.40 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
In git-ubuntu, which uses pristine-tar as in the forthcoming Ubuntu Artful (17.10), we are encountering the following failure to use `gbp import-orig --pristine-tar`: 09/07/2017 23:04:55 - INFO:Importing patches-unapplied 5.16.0-1 to debian/experimental 09/07/2017 23:06:27 - ERROR:Command exited 1: gbp import-orig --no-merge --upstream-branch do-not-push --pristine-tar --no-interactive --no-symlink-orig '--upstream-tag=importer/upstream/debian/%(version)s.bz2' /tmp/tmpjxa3xdz_/.git/git-ubuntu-cache/perl_5.16.0.orig.tar.bz2 09/07/2017 23:06:27 - ERROR:stdout: gbp:info: Importing '/tmp/tmpjxa3xdz_/.git/git-ubuntu-cache/perl_5.16.0.orig.tar.bz2' to branch 'do-not-push'... gbp:info: Source package is perl gbp:info: Upstream version is 5.16.0 gbp:info: Rolling back branch do-not-push by resetting it to 175d7589b54d8c0732cd5682a0fb9acb616cfa1e gbp:info: Rolling back branch pristine-tar by resetting it to 8442e7f38d36473f4a0ac2b642cb0a58a98cb5e4 09/07/2017 23:06:27 - ERROR:stderr: gbp:error: Import of /tmp/tmpjxa3xdz_/.git/git-ubuntu-cache/perl_5.16.0.orig.tar.bz2 failed: Couldn't commit to 'pristine-tar' with upstream '0c9799299a9a8bccec0c3eca804618a99e5adcb7': pristine-bz2 failed to reproduce build of /tmp/tmpjxa3xdz_/.git/git-ubuntu-cache/perl_5.16.0.orig.tar.bz2 (Please file a bug report.) pristine-tar: command failed: pristine-bz2 --no-verbose --no-debug --no-keep gendelta /tmp/tmpjxa3xdz_/.git/git-ubuntu-cache/perl_5.16.0.orig.tar.bz2 /tmp/pristine-tar.zIp5kBWl9R/wrapper pristine-tar: failed to generate delta gbp:error: Error detected, Will roll back changes. gbp:error: Rolled back changes after import error. I'm tracking as many cases as I encounter from historical imports at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1699887 . What's the best way for me to help drive these to resolution? I'm happy to work on code to solve this, but am not sure where the underlying error is.
