---
name: "pristine-orig"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "pkg-perl-tools"
version: "0.82"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pristine-orig"
---

# pristine-orig(1)

## NAME

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

## SYNOPSIS

```
 pristine-orig
```

## DESCRIPTION

**pristine-orig** checks the current package name via *debian/control* and the current package version from *debian/changelog* and calls [**pristine-tar**(1)](/pristine-tar/1.md) with the right file name so that you get a pristine upstream source tarball ready.

It tries gzip, bzip2 and xz compression suffices.

The tarball is placed in the `"USCAN_DESTDIR"` directory (configured via [**devscripts.conf**(5)](/devscripts.conf/5.md), see [**uscan**(1)](/uscan/1.md)), or in the parent directory if no `"USCAN_DESTDIR"` is configured.

## 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.