Matthias Urlichs <matth...@urlichs.de> writes: > Raphael Hertzog: >> About pristine-tar >> ------------------
>> If the package maintainers use the pristine-tar tool to efficiently >> store a byte-for-byte copy of the upstream tarballs, this should be >> done in the `pristine-tar` branch. > Please discourage the use of pristine-tar. The format is fragile and can > suffer from bit rot. I strongly disagree with this advice. pristine-tar is hugely helpful, and is something we should continue to support, advocate, maintain, and use. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87egt91d6c....@hope.eyrie.org
