Re: Bug#1127616: developers-reference: should document using git-debpush to upload

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On February 12, 2026 11:30:35 PM GMT+01:00, intrigeri <intrig...@debian.org> 
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Lucas Nussbaum (2026-02-12):
>> I added some statistics about fetishism^Hpristine-tar usage (SCNR) on
>> https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/dep14stats.cgi
>
>Thanks!
>
>> 72.8% of packages with a working salsa project have a pristine-tar
>> branch.
>
>While the mere existence of a pristine-tar branch strongly suggests
>the packaging has at least used pristine-tar at some point in history,
>it does not necessary mean it *currently* uses pristine-tar.

The inverse might be true as well ;)

For the Rust team, only a handful of "traditionally" maintained
packages use pristine-tar. But 99% of the rest still use upstream
tarballs as their source of upstream sources, despite not
having a pristine-tar branch (they don't even track the full debian/
dir in git).