On Aug 16, Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote: > Because you're a Debian Developer and might want to upload a package to > the archive without downloading the uploaded tarball which substantially > duplicates what you have in your source tree? Or you're collaborating > with someone and need to use a repacked tarball? You only need this if you fail to correctly build the binary package, since in these cases you would not do a sourceful upload. And anyway I'd say that downloading the original archive is simpler than having to deal with pristine-tar... -- ciao, Marco
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