Re: Do we still need pristine-tar?
Le Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 04:03:52PM +0530, Nilesh Patra a écrit :
If there is a way to add the test data in a single tar without inflating the
size of debian/ dir, I agree that this would be fair enough. However, I have no
idea how to do that.
Hi Nilesh, I tried to research about multi-tar packages, and I am under
the impression that when a multi-tar package A's version increases, both
a new A_version.orig.tar.gz and new A_version.orig-foo.tar.gz tarball
has to be uploaded, so unless the archive does smart deduplication there
is no gain..._
Le Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 02:25:16PM +0300, Andrius Merkys a écrit :
I might have missed something, but why we are losing the byte-to-byte
identity?
Hi Andrius, if we do gbp import-orig with foo.tgz, and then gbp
buildpackage, only if we use --pristine-tar we can recreate an orig
tarball from scratch that is identical to what we gave to gbp.
In the git debpush workflow, the orig tarball is recreated from the Git
repository if it does not exist in the Debian archive. It has the same
files but not necessarly the same checksum as upstreams source tarball,
but this is not a blocker because if we want to do a Debian revision to
the source package, we (and tag2upload) can download Debian's version of
the upstream source tarball, and therefore keep it stable.
Have a nice week-end!
Charles
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