Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#896676: pristine-tar: more convenient automatic mode please"): > control: severity -1 wishlist > control: tag -1 +moreinfo ... > If you type `origtargz` it will invoke pristine-tar correctly.
Oh! I tried `git-deborig' (which Sean had mentioned to me before) and it didn't invoke pristine-tar at all. Now I know that it is, apparently, the Debian way to have difficult-to-use primary functionality with a plethora of competing wrapper scripts, sometimes even competing wrapper scripts within the same package (devscripts, in this case). But could we at least have a few cross references in the manpages ? I notice that there is also a program `mk-origtargz'. Is that different from `origtargz' ? Ian.