Re: Do we still need pristine-tar?
On 12/09/25 7:40 pm, Charles Plessy wrote:
> 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..._
If we have the data inside of debian/tests itself, every debian revision (not
new upstream) will include copies of that data in debian.tar.xz tarball. Having
it in MUT adds to the size per upstream release.
I don't personally mind having even big size data inside debian/tests but FTP masters
are not happy about it and started rejecting our packages which is the reason
this was ever added into the policy.
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