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  1. Bug #336442
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Comment 1 for bug 336442

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 336442] [NEW] merge-upstream: more helpful error message if pristine-tar does not exist

On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 22:37 +0000, Daniel Hahler wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> I'm trying to merge a new upstream revision, which fails as follows:
>
> $ bzr merge-upstream ../tvbrowser_2.7.3.orig.tar.gz --version 2.7.3
> Using distribution jaunty
> /usr/bin/pristine-tar gendelta /home/daniel/ubuntu/tvbrowser/tvbrowser_2.7.3.orig.tar.gz -
> bzr: ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>
> The problem appears to be that I've not installed pristine-tar - maybe
> that should get checked at the beginning of running merge-upstream (and
> output a more helpful error)?

Thanks for the report,

I thought I had made pristine-tar a dependency, I at least intended to.

I will fix this in the next upload.

Thanks,

James