Re: Using pristine-tar (was: Keeping upstream commits separate from Debian packaging commits)

[Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org>]

Hi Charles, thanks for the information.

On Oct 13, 2014, at 08:41 AM, Charles Plessy wrote:

>in the Debian Med team, we had concrete evidence last May that the
>pristine-tar data bitrots with time in the way explained by Joey on
>debian-devel.
>
>Sorry to not have a high-quality summary to propose, but you can have a look
>at the following thread and do not hesitate to ask for more information on
>our list if you would like.
>
>http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2014-May/026728.html
>http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2014-June/027063.html

I probably missed it, but from skimming these threads, it seemed like the
problem was more with git-buildpackage than with pristine-tar.  If so, I
wonder if the same problems would affect git-dpm.

I search d-d on gmane and wasn't able to find Joey's specific message about
pristine-tar bitrot.  pristine-tar does have a few bugs that could be
relevant.  I'm not sure where that leaves us though.

Cheers,
-Barry