Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > If the package maintainers use the pristine-tar tool to efficiently store
> > a byte-for-byte copy of the upstream tarballs, this should be done in the
> > `pristine-tar` branch.
>
> Please discourage the use of pristine-tar. The format is fragile and can
> suffer from bit rot.
The DEP will neither encourage and discourage its use. It only mentions
that if a maintainer is using it, it should store pristine-tar data
in the "pristine-tar" branch.
FWIW, I do use pristine-tar and I find it really useful even though I know
that some day my old pristine-tar data will be unusable. It's not a big
deal since we have snapshot.debian.org and archive.debian.org for those
cases. The point of the pristine-tar data is to help contributors who
are cooperating right now, it's not to make sure we can recreate the same
old .orig.tar.gz in 10 years from now (even though it would have been nice
if it achieved this).
Cheers,
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