Re: Do we still need pristine-tar?

Le Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 07:49:41PM +0530, Nilesh Patra a écrit :
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>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.

Sure, but you also can have a copy outside that the source package
"orig" tarball distributes, isn't it?  This comes at the price of not
distributing the original upstream tarball but this is exactly what we
are giving away if we stop using pristine-tar while relying on git only
for source package management.

Cheers,

Charles