On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 08:49:44PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Andrey Rakhmatullin <w...@debian.org> writes: > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 06:54:18PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > >> This is 1). It cannot be done generically as it requires knowing > >> where to download from, etc. > > > > The archive, when the tarball is already there. > > > > These suggestions never discuss what to do when the tarball was never > > uploaded yet, even I didn't discuss that for simplicity. It makes sense > > from some PoVs, at least when one doesn't use pristine-tar to make a > > tarball that has differences in the actual content, not just bit > > differences in the tarball itself while have identical file contents. > > If you haven't made an upload, then wouldn't you have the tarball > locally while working on preparing the upload? > > And if someone doesn't have the orig.tar.gz locally, then why would > anyone want to get it from a random git repository, rather than fetching > it from the Debian archive or from upstream's release page? What is the > use-case here that am I missing?
.orig.tar tarball handling is a horrible mess. I have been a DD for two decades, have experienced at least three methods to handle them, and still, upstream tarballs get put by tools in a place where other tools don't expect them, get misnamed, are compressed by one tool in a format that the next tool doesn't understand (yet/any more). It invariably always takes me at least a second try to get it right, and I would LOVE that having a pristine-tar branch would make me get rid of this chaos by just rebuilding the .orig.tar.gz if it isnt found in a place where $TOOL expects it. It's only a major nuisance compared to others that we have in the project, but if I had an Euro for every time I have sighed and mv'ed a tarball, I'd be rich and be able to work almost full time on Debian. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
