Bug#970750: lintian: cannot run origtar check on package source:nvidia-cuda-toolkit/10.2.89-5

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Andreas,

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 3:00 PM Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> wrote:
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> (which is a multi-tarball source):

Thanks for filing this bug. It is a well-known but hopefully
short-lived issue with some packages that combine multiple upstream
source tarballs.

We now unpack the orig sources and do an MD5 based comparison between
the patched and the orig source trees. It re-enables large parts of
the cruft check that had been turned off whenever diffstat output is
not available---which was for any source format above 1.0. Now the
tags run again on 3.0 (quilt) sources, which make up the majority of
the archive.

Upstream tarballs come with various prefixes and internal name
conflicts that are probably responsible here.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner