Re: Couldn't commit to pristine-tar - This doesn't look like a tar archive (continued)

Stéphane Glondu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le 30/06/2026 à 13:59, Bastian Blank a écrit :
>> - pristine-tar is as far as I know the culprit ;
> 
> Why pristine-tar, what is your goal?  Yes, it is known to be clunky,
> because it need to redo all compression and assembling stuff, in all the
> compression version variants.

It doesn't explain why nobody seems to be able to reproduce Julien's 
issue (but don't even though I tried).

We've been using pristine-tar for a long time in the OCaml team, mainly 
because it's the way git-buildpackage works out of the box. We haven't 
considered alternatives...


Cheers,
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