Package: pristine-tar
Severity: wishlist
Hi, Joey.
This is not the first time that I get slightly confused about the
function of pristine-tar.
It seems to me that its main purpose is to retain metadata that aren't
kept when files are put in a git repository. But the long description
describes too much *how* pristine-tar does, but not *what* problem it
addresses.
I suggest, thus, something along the lines:
,----
| In some cases, files created by the user may not retain their metadata
| (e.g., information like file permission, including owner and
| time-stamps), which may be needed for recreation of archives (like
| tarballs) and/or checksums that take the metadata into consideration.
|
| This is, in particular, desired when the user employs the git version
| control system to track his files.
|
| pristine-tar can (...)
`----
to be included in the long description. I'm not tagging this as a patch,
since I would like your comments on that.
Thanks in advance, Rogério.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1+i865 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages pristine-tar depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-26 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii perl-modules 5.10.0-25 Core Perl modules
pn xdelta <none> (no description available)
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages pristine-tar recommends:
ii bzip2 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii pbzip2 1.0.5-1 parallel bzip2 implementation
pristine-tar suggests no packages.
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