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A new version of pristine-tar

Some of you may have noticed that a new version of pristine-tar was released in Debian unstable. Well, actually, 3 versions were released recently, since very fast a regression was found (#835586) and, sure enough, I found another one after uploading a fix for the first one.

The most important new feature is the ability to use xdelta3 instead of xdelta for delta generation. This doesn’t concern 99.9% of users and is disabled by default for backwards compatibility, but is going to be default in the future. This new format supports bigger files (see #737499) and xdelta3 seems better maintained.

Enjoy the new version and please report any problems you find.


inspired by classicthesis / 2024