control: severity -1 wishlist
control: tag -1 +moreinfo

Hello Ian,

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 01:55:30PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> When I want to regenerate the .orig, I have to specify the whole
> filename.  Ie, I have to say
>
>   pristine-tar checkout network-manager-strongswan_1.4.3.orig.tar.bz2
>
> But it would be much more convenient to say just
>
>   pristine-tar deborig
>
> which would work more like `git-deborig'.  It could find the package
> name and upstream version by parsing debian/changelog.  It would then
> check that this uniquely specifies a set of orig tarballs[1] and
> generate them.

If you type `origtargz` it will invoke pristine-tar correctly.

Maintainer: tagging 'moreinfo' because I suspect that `origtargz`
satisfies this wishlist request and no changes are needed in
pristine-tar.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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