pristine-orig(1)

✨ pristine-orig(1) ✨

okay bestie, so this lil cutie lives in the Debian Perl packaging Tools section of the manual, and it's here to acquire upstream source of the current package version. yes gorl, it gets you a tarball. let's go 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

pristine-orig — acquire upstream source of the current package version

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

 pristine-orig

thats it. no flags. no args. she's a no-argument icon, she just does it 💖

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea 💅 pristine-orig goes and checks the current package name via debian/control, and it checks the current package version from debian/changelog. then she calls pristine-tar(1) with the right file name so that you get a pristine upstream source tarball ready. yes ma'am, she does the whole thing for you 🫶

she tries gzip, bzip2 and xz compression suffices. all three, no cap ✨

now the important part, the where does the tarball go part 👑 the tarball is placed in the "USCAN_DESTDIR" directory (configured via devscripts.conf(5), see uscan(1)), or in the parent directory if no "USCAN_DESTDIR" is configured. periodt. 📁

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💜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 💜

Copyright (c) 2011, 2017 Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. 🌈

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ngl bestie, that's the whole page. short and iconic. go get ur pristine tarball 💖

so like, <pink>pkg-perl-tools 0.88</pink>, dated <purple>2026-04-01</purple> — that's the version and the date this page came from, mwah, slay ✨🎀💅