On 11/02/26 at 13:42 +0100, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote: > * Sean Whitton <[email protected]> [2026-02-11 11:52]: > > For example, I maintain or team half-maintain maybe 90 packages in > > total, and none of them use pristine-tar. So the only case where I > > cannot use tag2upload is when I need to upload to NEW, which is not > > often. Therefore tag2upload is my default way to upload, because why > > wouldn't it be, it's so smooth and easy. > > My perception is rather different here: > > Python Team: > > "DPT requires a pristine-tar branch" > > https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/python-modules/blob/master/policy.rst > > Science Team: > > "It is recommended to use pristine-tar" > > https://science-team.pages.debian.net/policy/ > > Multimedia Team: > > "gbp clone --pristine-tar" > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging > > Also most of my uploads are new upstream versions.
I added some statistics about fetishism^Hpristine-tar usage (SCNR) on https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/dep14stats.cgi 72.8% of packages with a working salsa project have a pristine-tar branch. Among salsa groups with more than 200 packages in testing, the following have more than 80% of group-maintained packages that have a pristine-tar branch: debian 3501 packages using pristine-tar (80.7% of the group's packages) with no team policy that advocates doing it AFAIK. perl-team 4079 (99.5%) python-team 2756 (97.7%) js-team 1674 (98.2%) 1704 ruby-team 1174 (99.4%) 1181 java-team 1040 (93.4%) 1113 r-pkg-team 957 (99.9%) 958 med-team 915 (99.8%) 917 science-team 773 (92.6%) 835 games-team 472 (82.2%) 574 multimedia-team 518 (93.5%) 554 fonts-team 345 (81.6%) 423 ocaml-team 390 (99.0%) 394 gnome-team 303 (98.7%) 307 php-team 264 (96.7%) 273 debian-astro-team 245 (95.7%) 256 pkg-security-team 242 (96.4%) 251 tryton-team 224 (99.6%) 225 The other groups (< 80%) are: homeassistant-team 368 (73.9%) 498 emacsen-team 206 (59.4%) 347 go-team 1467 (57.1%) 2570 qt-kde-team 35 (5.4%) 654 openstack-team 13 (2.6%) 501 rust-team 4 (0.1%) haskell-team 5 (0.5%) 978 Lucas
