Package: pristine-tar Version: 1.50+nmu1 Severity: normal I discovered that a package I was trying to use with pristine-tar failed to work. The cause of the issue seems to be that the upstream tarball contains an empty directory, which is lost when regenerated by pristine-tar.
Steps to reproduce using git-buildpackage: 1. Import the attached minimal working example into git using the command: gbp import-dsc --pristine-tar foobar_1.0-1.dsc 2. Change into the build directory: cd foobar 3. Regenerate the original tar ball using pristine-tar, for example: gbp buildpackage -S 4. Return to the parent directory, then: $ tar ztf foobar_1.0.orig.tar.gz foobar-1.0/ foobar-1.0/foobar.c foobar-1.0/Makefile foobar-1.0/emptydir/ $ tar ztf build-area/foobar_1.0.orig.tar.gz foobar-1.0/ foobar-1.0/Makefile foobar-1.0/foobar.c Note the empty directory has disappeared. Also: $ ls -l foobar_1.0.orig.tar.gz build-area/foobar_1.0.orig.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 jdg jdg 253 Mar 4 20:51 build-area/foobar_1.0.orig.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 jdg jdg 193 Mar 4 20:00 foobar_1.0.orig.tar.gz Best wishes, Julian
