On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 02:27:12PM +0100, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote: > Hi Santiago, > > * Santiago Vila <[email protected]> [2026-02-11 14:19]: > > Hi. When I started to put my packages in salsa, I was skeptical about this > > pristine-tar thing. But one day I noticed that it helps Salsa CI > > to build the package in some cases, especially when it's a -1 version. > > Can you give some examples here? > > I assume those are cases where the upstream git branch does not contain the > same data as the orig tarball and we should probably look into that before > moving away from pristine-tar.
Sorry, I can't give examples because I did not take notes, but I remember that it was not a mismatch between orig tarball and git branch (I am usually quite careful about that) but rather some difficulty from Salsa CI to create an orig tarball. I believe it had something to do with uscan and the flaky network connectivity of ftp.gnu.org some weeks/months ago. I know Salsa CI uses some heuristics to create the orig.tar.gz and it uses uscan and the watch file in some cases. I assume there is a high overlap between Salsa CI having to do that and lack of a pristine-tar branch. Thanks.
