Guido Günther writes ("Re: Intent to commit craziness - source package
unpacking"):
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 04:15:08PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> [..snip..]
> > Recommends: pristine-tar (>= 0.5)
...> >
> > pristine-tar has been declared unmaintainable by its original
> > author and a
Ian Jackson writes:
> Guido Günther writes:
>> Looking at git.debian.org I found plenty of users. I did an archive
>> import of sid during Debconf and was only ran into 20 pristine-tar
>> failures (bugs yet to be filed).
> Interesting.
My impression is that the perils and flaws of pristine-tar
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Intent to commit craziness - source package
unpacking"):
> Ian Jackson writes:
> > I'm not sure of the logic behind that. I don't think dgit helps much
> > with the kind of tasks that pristine-tar helps with.
>
> The main benefit of pristine-tar is that you can clone t
