Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories
2024, നവം 28 3:06:13 PM Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>:
> I think this is a good example of us talking past each other in this
> thread: some people question the value of pristine in the first place
> (and I've been compelled by those arguments), and some people argue that
> the cost is small and there are no bugs (or at least lack of bug
> reports).
>
pristine-tar almost always fail when there are multiple orig tar files. I did not report bugs since the limitation of not working 100% is a known issue already.
Many packages in js-team and gitlab package is an example.
In some cases when origtargz command fails, gbp export-orig --pristine-tar works. Again this incompatibility between using pristine-tar directly and gbp export-orig seems like a known issue.
A simple fix would probably for origtargz to fall back to gbp export-orig if pristine-tar fail.
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