Op zo 13 jan. 2019 om 13:17 schreef Guido Günther <a...@sigxcpu.org>: > > pristine-tar is a recommends, not a depends, so it wasn't installed on > > my system and it took quite some time to figure out why the > > buildpackage was failing. > > pristine-tar is not required at all for gbp operation and people use it > without it.
Isn't it required for some operations? > If you disable recommends (it defaults to on in apt) you > should be able to cope with such problems. Is it worth it? What's the benefit? > That said if somebody wants to come up with a better error message that > fails upfront when pristine-tar is selected but not available I'm happy > to apply it. -- Olaf
