Stephen, On 08/03/2020 00:43, Stephen Gelman wrote:
> One small point about not using pristine-tar: today I tried to upload > backports of a number of packages packaged with the new workflow. All of the > uploads got rejected because of a mismatched tarball. The fix was pretty > easy - just grab the orig from the archives and rebuild, but it was > definitely an added hassle that wasn’t a problem when using pristine-tar. > Not really complaining, just wanted to add another datapoint. :) This is normal when switching from pristine-tar to no-pristine-tar without a new upstream release: the way the tarballs are generated is not compatible and you need to get the original tarball from the archive. After switching, this has never been an issue for me.
