Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote:
> > Also, the
> > tar-generated manifest sometimes contains filenames encoded in ways that
> > pristine-tar does not understand, but tar does, and your patch would
> > certianly fail then.
> 
> Could you please provide more detail on this. This is something I'd like
> to address as well.

Well, I can't remember examples of such tarballs, but I remember them
showing up in testing of pristine-tar against the whole Debian archive,
and having to fix it to deal with that. That's why the $full_sweep code
exists.

The best thing to do will be to try your code in such a full-archive
test and see what breaks.

-- 
see shy jo

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