Here's another tarball which fails, but with a different error message from the other cases in this bugreport: http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/free-cad/FreeCAD_0.7.1350_source.tgz
I ge (after renaming the file to freecad_0.7.1350.orig.tar.gz : $ pristine-tar -vd commit ../freecad_0.7.1350.orig.tar.gz pristine-tar: git archive --format=tar 220f88360affb14e200ab35e97deab3ebc4ba66a | (cd '/tmp/pristine-tar.eKj9wxWvKu' && tar x) pristine-tar: set subdir to FreeCAD_0.7.1350 pristine-tar: subdir is FreeCAD_0.7.1350 pristine-tar: mkdir /tmp/pristine-tar.v6UFOkhTEq/workdir pristine-tar: mv /tmp/pristine-tar.eKj9wxWvKu /tmp/pristine-tar.v6UFOkhTEq/workdir/FreeCAD_0.7.1350 pristine-tar: tar cf /tmp/pristine-tar.v6UFOkhTEq/recreatetarball --owner 0 --group 0 --numeric-owner -C /tmp/pristine-tar.v6UFOkhTEq/workdir --no-recursion --mode 0644 --files-from /tmp/pristine-tar.v6UFOkhTEq/manifest pristine-tar: zcat ../freecad_0.7.1350.orig.tar.gz > /tmp/pristine-tar.qsKzKbl30K/origtarball pristine-tar: pristine-gz -v -d --no-keep gendelta ../freecad_0.7.1350.orig.tar.gz /tmp/pristine-tar.qsKzKbl30K/wrapper pristine-gz: cp ../freecad_0.7.1350.orig.tar.gz /tmp/pristine-gz.sDxsJVPdrc/test.gz debug: flags: [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] timestamp: 1211390862 level: 2 os: 255 name: FreeCAD_0.7.1350_source.tgz pristine-gz: mv -f /tmp/pristine-gz.sDxsJVPdrc/test.gz /tmp/pristine-gz.sDxsJVPdrc/FreeCAD_0.7.1350_source.tgz.gz pristine-gz: gunzip -N /tmp/pristine-gz.sDxsJVPdrc/FreeCAD_0.7.1350_source.tgz.gz pristine-gz: zgz -9 --osflag 255 /tmp/pristine-gz.sDxsJVPdrc/FreeCAD_0.7.1350_source.tgz zgz: /tmp/pristine-gz.sDxsJVPdrc/FreeCAD_0.7.1350_source.tgz already has .tgz suffix -- unchanged command failed: zgz -9 --osflag 255 /tmp/pristine-gz.sDxsJVPdrc/FreeCAD_0.7.1350_source.tgz pristine-tar: command failed: pristine-gz -v -d --no-keep gendelta ../freecad_0.7.1350.orig.tar.gz /tmp/pristine-tar.qsKzKbl30K/wrapper pristine-tar: failed to generate delta Is this a problem with pristine-tar not liking files named *.tgz? Teemu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]