On 20/06/17 09:17, Stephen Kitt wrote: > > [...] > > Steps to reproduce: > > wget > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/mingw-w64/mingw-w64-release/mingw-w64-v5.0.2.tar.bz2 > mkdir mingw-w64 && cd mingw-w64 > git init > gbp import-orig --pristine-tar ../mingw-w64-v5.0.2.tar.bz2 >
Thank you Stephen, I confirm the problem. Some background: bz2 and xz are the formats in pristine-tar that will fail to be committed if an exact match for a program cannot be found. The gz format has a fallback and will generate a binary delta that may be big, but will let you at least commit the tarball. It seems that a new way of bz2 compressing is in the wild. I'll investigate what that is and if that fails, I'll take a look if a binary delta approach is applicable to bz2 too. Cheers, Tomasz
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