Comment 7 for bug 615212

Thank you for your comment. Arguably, something isn't right here.

From the manpage of git-buildpackage: "--git-compression=type
              Specifies the upstream tarball compression type.[...] The default is auto which derives the compression type from the pristine-tar branch if available and falls back to gzip otherwise."

Here is my pristine-tar branch (isdnutils has become a bit of a complicated beast between Ubuntu and Debian over the years.

commit accbdec57c1b50b7be2359bc21d450ddab997488
Author: Rolf Leggewie <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Sep 8 18:35:28 2010 +0200

    pristine-tar data for isdnutils_3.12.20071127.orig.tar.gz

commit e72bfb99f94775bc93b065156943edea80d3ad32
Author: Rolf Leggewie <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Sep 8 18:32:12 2010 +0200

    pristine-tar data for isdnutils_3.10.20070306.orig.tar.gz

commit cbc61d6dab6430aa5553546b2e9752d453ed8926
Author: Rolf Leggewie <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Sep 8 17:55:47 2010 +0200

    pristine-tar data for isdnutils_3.9.20060704+dfsg.1.orig.tar.bz2

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Master is following 3.9.20060704+dfsg.1, but there are newer upstream releases for the debian-branch of Ubuntu. I hope this makes sense.