Debian Bug report logs - #737871
ITA: pristine-tar -- regenerate pristine tarballs

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: O: pristine-tar -- regenerate pristine tarballs

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 11:41:42 -0400

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Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I am orphaning pristine-tar. Note that this is a native package, so
it needs a new upstream maintainer in addition to Debian maintainer.

I have no personal need to use pristine-tar now that dgit exists,
and I would rather spend time on dgit.

I should add a little bit about the reason I wrote pristine-tar in the
first place. There were two reasons:

1. I was once in a talk where someone mentioned that Ubuntu had/was
   developing something that involved regenerating orig tarballs
   from version control.
   I asked the obvious question: How could that possibly be done
   technically? 
   The (slightly hung over) presenter did not have a satesfactory
   response, so my curiosity was piqued to find a way to do it.
   (I later heard that Ubuntu has been using pristine-tar..)

2. Sometimes code can be subversive. It can change people's perspective
   on a topic, nudging discourse in a different direction. It can even
   point out absurdities in the way things are done. I may or may not
   have accomplished the subversive part of my goals with pristine-tar.

Code can also escape its original intention. Many current uses of
pristine-tar fall into that category. So it seems likely that some
people will want it to continue to work even if it's met the two goals
above already.

My feeling is that pristine-tar will eventually need to embed a suite of
historical versions of tar and gzip (and bzip2 etc), since upstream
changes can break output stability. It already embeds several versions
of the compressors. We've slightly been abusing the Debian patches of
tar to put in pristine-tar compatability hacks there, and while I
appreciate Bdale's willingness to do that, I don't think that's
sustainable.

Anyone who wants to maintain this is going to need to tackle that issue.
It's also helpful if you enjoy the interesting puzzle of taking a
file it fails to support currently, and finding the trick to make it work.

Without Faidon Liambotis, much of the hardest parts of pristine-tar
(particularly pristine-gz) would not have happened. If Faidon wants this
package, he has it.

-- 
see shy jo

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Message #10 received at 737871@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tomasz Buchert <tomasz.buchert@inria.fr>

To: 737871@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re:

Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:47:40 +0100

Hi Joey,
I feel like I could maintain pristine-tar. I use
git-buildpackage for all my current packages and
pristine-tar seems like an important element.
I have a few questions that:

  * I have no experience with Perl - is it going
    to be an issue?
  * I didn't know about dgit, does it render
    git-buildpackage somehow obsolete? I'm DM
    and as far as I know, I cannot use. Will
    dgit support non-DDs one day? Will dgit
    effectively replace gbp and pristine-tar?

Cheers,
Tomasz

Message #15 received at 737871@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

To: Tomasz Buchert <tomasz.buchert@inria.fr>

Cc: 737871@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: O: pristine-tar -- regenerate pristine tarballs

Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 01:19:46 -0400

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You will need to know perl and C.

dgit does not obsolete dpkg-buildpackage, but dpkg-buildpackage
does not use pristine-tar.

-- 
see shy jo

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Message #20 received at 737871@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tomasz Buchert <tomasz.buchert@inria.fr>

To: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

Cc: 737871@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: O: pristine-tar -- regenerate pristine tarballs

Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:27:40 +0100

On 19/02/14 01:19, Joey Hess wrote:
> You will need to know perl and C.
> 
> dgit does not obsolete dpkg-buildpackage, but dpkg-buildpackage
> does not use pristine-tar.
> 
> -- 
> see shy jo

I'll try to fix a bug or two and we'll see. :)

Tomasz

Message #25 received at 737871-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>

To: 737871-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#737871: fixed in pristine-tar 1.34

Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 22:33:57 +0000

Source: pristine-tar
Source-Version: 1.34

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pristine-tar, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 737871@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> (supplier of updated pristine-tar package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 13:49:53 -0300
Source: pristine-tar
Binary: pristine-tar
Architecture: source
Version: 1.34
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
Changed-By: Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
Description:
 pristine-tar - regenerate pristine tarballs
Closes: 737871
Changes:
 pristine-tar (1.34) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New maintainer (Closes: #737871)
   * pristine-tar.spec: bump version number
   * Add tests for very basic usage. These can be run during the build and
     under autopkgtest
     - Added build dependencies on shunit2, git, and xdelta
   * Makefile.PL: make build idempotent
   * debian/control:
     - Remove duplicated Section field in binary package
     - Switch Vcs-* fields to collab-maint repository
     - Bump Standard-Version to 3.9.8; no changes needed
   * Add missing debian/source/format
   * debian/copyright: fix wildcard for pit/suse-bzip2/
   * Build with hardening flags
   * zgz/zgz.pod: fix typo
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