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

Peter Pentchev <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Jul 2026 13:46:25 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
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On Mon, Jul 06, 2026 at 11:30:50PM +0200, Julien Puydt wrote:
> Le samedi 04 juillet 2026 à 21:11 +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin a écrit :
> > On Sat, Jul 04, 2026 at 06:09:24PM +0200, Julien Puydt wrote:
> > > > > It doesn't happen in a chroot.
> > > > 
> > > > I thought you said it does.
> > > 
> > > I rechecked and it doesn't. I think I mixed up somewhere...
> > 
> > Well then the problem is mot likely in /usr/local or something like
> > that.
> 
> Nothing in /usr/local...
> 
> Is there a way to actually debug what goes sideways?
> 
> I'm a bit desperate...

Well, gbp import-orig does have a -v (verbose) option, and I am not in
a position to test it right now, but it may be possible to get
pristine-tar to also display verbose output if you set PRISTINE_TAR=-v
in your environment, although I'm not sure if the actual subcommand
that gbp-import-orig will pass to it will not override that.

Otherwise, you could always try putting something like:

#!/bin/sh

exec /usr/bin/pristine-tar -v "$@"

...in ~/bin/pristine-tar and see if gbp-import-orig picks it up (after
prepending it to the program search patch, of course).

G'luck,
Peter

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