Bug#1127616: developers-reference: should document using git-debpush to upload

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:57:35 +0000

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Lucas Nussbaum [12/Feb 10:25pm +01] wrote:
> I added some statistics about fetishism^Hpristine-tar usage (SCNR) on
> https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/dep14stats.cgi
>
> 72.8% of packages with a working salsa project have a pristine-tar
> branch.
>
> Among salsa groups with more than 200 packages in testing, the following
> have more than 80% of group-maintained packages that have a pristine-tar
> branch:

I would really appreciate knowing whether these branches are in use --
whether they have the most recent upstream versions imported to them.

For example I often find pristine-tar branches but just ignore them,
where team policy allows me to.  So the fact that someone used it once
may not mean much statistically.

git-debpush has code in it to detect whether the current release in
d/changelog is represented in the pristine-tar branch if you want to
crib from somewhere.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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