Control: severity -1 minor On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 08:02:59PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > to my surprise the devscripts has no package relation with pristine-tar > nor is it mentioned in devscripts' long package description despite > origtargz uses it unconditionally. pristine-tar is though mentioned in > the origtargz(1) man page and changelog.Debian.gz. > > origtargz though ignores any errors from the pristine-tar (not sure if > feature or bug ;-), so a missing pristine-tar binary is not noticed > during usage as origtargz just falls back to other acquisition methods.
It's a documented feature.
origtargz tries to obtain the tarball, and just falls back through
several retrival methods. As such, the pristine-tar is entirely
optional.
> I hence suggest as fix for this bug to add pristine-tar to either
> Suggests or Recommends and mention it in the long package description as
> optional (but IMHO for origtargz recommended) dependency of origtargz.
Done, as recommends. See the README file for a description of the whole
thing (which is then partially mirrored in the long description)
> So while the RC severity is theoretically correct due to a missing
> package relation, I have no issue if someone prefers to downgrade this
> bug to e.g. important as it IMHO is not needed to prepare a devscripts
> upload now just because of this bug report.
Indeed, RC is way too overblown for such optional feature :3
Thank you for your report!
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