Re: Basics of packaging with the new workflow
On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 11:13 AM Martina Ferrari <tina@debian.org> wrote:
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> Stephen,
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> On 08/03/2020 00:43, Stephen Gelman wrote:
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> > One small point about not using pristine-tar: today I tried to upload backports of a number of packages packaged with the new workflow. All of the uploads got rejected because of a mismatched tarball. The fix was pretty easy - just grab the orig from the archives and rebuild, but it was definitely an added hassle that wasn’t a problem when using pristine-tar. Not really complaining, just wanted to add another datapoint. :)
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> This is normal when switching from pristine-tar to no-pristine-tar
> without a new upstream release: the way the tarballs are generated is
> not compatible and you need to get the original tarball from the
> archive. After switching, this has never been an issue for me.
Martina,
This was on a brand new package. When backporting, the archive
generated on a buster box was different from the one generated on my
sid box, so I think there's at least a somewhat different issue here.
Stephen
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