(dropping bug report from recipients) > > I added some statistics about fetishism^Hpristine-tar usage (SCNR) on > > https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/dep14stats.cgi > > > > 72.8% of packages with a working salsa project have a pristine-tar > > branch. > > > > Among salsa groups with more than 200 packages in testing, the following > > have more than 80% of group-maintained packages that have a pristine-tar > > branch: > > I would really appreciate knowing whether these branches are in use -- > whether they have the most recent upstream versions imported to them.
We could do a scan to see if gbp.conf has `pristine-tar = True`, assuming only packages that have that configured in the package itself will consistently be using it. Another data point that comes to my mind is https://debaudit.debian.net/orig-check/statistics showing 23239 packages (58.60%) have a orig tarball that is bit-for-bit identical with upstream tarball, suggesting they used pristine-tar in one way or another.
