Re: Axel Beckert > to my surprise the devscripts has no package relation with pristine-tar > nor is it mentioned in devscripts' long package description despite > origtargz uses it unconditionally. pristine-tar is though mentioned in > the origtargz(1) man page and changelog.Debian.gz. > > origtargz though ignores any errors from the pristine-tar (not sure if > feature or bug ;-), so a missing pristine-tar binary is not noticed > during usage as origtargz just falls back to other acquisition methods.
It intentionally ignores errors, it's really a best-effort tool to look around where the tarball is. Maybe it could be smarter by checking if there is a origin/pristine-tar branch but pristine-tar isn't installed, though. Christoph
