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   From: sanvila@debian.org   
      
   On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 02:27:12PM +0100, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:   
   > Hi Santiago,   
   >   
   > * Santiago Vila  [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.   
      
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