Le Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:14:19PM -0400, Barry Warsaw a écrit : > On Oct 12, 2014, at 01:27 PM, Tristan Seligmann wrote: > > >That's interesting, I didn't know about that. I'm not really sure I > >understand how dgit replaces pristine-tar, unless you assume that > >every tarball you want to store is in the archive. (Perhaps that's a > >reasonable assumption?) And since we are not planning to use dgit in > >DPMT (as I understand it), I'm not sure what the obvious way for us to > >replace pristine-tar is. > > In practice, I haven't seen any problems with pristine-tar. And given that > archive uploads still currently require a tarball, and PyPI releases are > overwhelmingly tarball-based, I think it still makes sense for DPMT to > continue to use pristine-tar workflows by default.
Hi Barry, in the Debian Med team, we had concrete evidence last May that the pristine-tar data bitrots with time in the way explained by Joey on debian-devel. Sorry to not have a high-quality summary to propose, but you can have a look at the following thread and do not hesitate to ask for more information on our list if you would like. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2014-May/026728.html http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2014-June/027063.html Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141012234118.ga3...@falafel.plessy.net