On Aug 16, Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> wrote:

> Because you're a Debian Developer and might want to upload a package to
> the archive without downloading the uploaded tarball which substantially
> duplicates what you have in your source tree? Or you're collaborating
> with someone and need to use a repacked tarball?
You only need this if you fail to correctly build the binary package, 
since in these cases you would not do a sourceful upload.
And anyway I'd say that downloading the original archive is simpler than 
having to deal with pristine-tar...

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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