Package: pristine-tar Version: 1.46 Severity: wishlist Hi,
around an year ago I had some private communication with Antonio Terceiro and Tomasz Burchert about a possible different implementation of pristine-tar, which in my opinion might decrease the dependence of pristine-tar on the implementation details of a lot of older tar versions. My idea was briefly discussed, but then, it seems, everybody (including me) forgot about it. Since it has crossed my mind again for random reasons, I am not filing a bug, so that it doesn't fall again into oblivion. Basically, the idea is to change the way pristine-tar deltas are recorded: instead of keeping an xdelta between the tar generated by a reference tar version and the pristine tar, a format inspired by jigdo is adopted. Such format is basically a template with "holes" where the actual files in the tar have to be replaced. At archive reconstruction time one only has to fill in the holes. For more information and a proof of concept, see here: https://salsa.debian.org/gio/pristine-tar I am available for helping to develop this idea and possibly implement it. But I do not know Perl, so I cannot touch that directly. Thanks for your work on pristine-tar! Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani <[email protected]> Postdoc researcher - Université Libre de Bruxelles
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