Re: pristine tarball generator

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

> The 41k uqm-voice.delta file was created earlier as follows; normally
> this would happen when packaging the new upstream version, and it could
> be checked into revision control.
> 
> joey@kodama:~> pristine-tar stash lib/debian/unstable/uqm-voice_0.3.orig.tar.gz uqm-voice.delta

Hmm.. I don't quite understand why this stashing is required.  Why
would that be. Also another question would be, would it work, for
example, with upstream who creates tarballs with GNU tar vs star
format?


I'm just curious.


regards,
	junichi
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