buildd, weird tar problem and failure

["Christophe Prud'homme" <prudhomm@debian.org>]

Hi 

I am the maintainer of several packages
I uploaded a new version freefem3d yesterday and buildd failed
after looking at the log I got this

dpkg-source: extracting freefem3d in freefem3d-1.0pre3
tar: ./PaxHeaders.8890/freefem3d-1.0pre3: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as 
normal file
tar: freefem3d-1.0pre3/PaxHeaders.8890/README: Unknown file type 'x', 
extracted as normal file
tar: freefem3d-1.0pre3/PaxHeaders.8890/Makefile.in: Unknown file type 'x', 
extracted as normal file
tar: freefem3d-1.0pre3/PaxHeaders.8890/configure: Unknown file type 'x', 
extracted as normal file
...

for more details see (it is the same on all platforms)
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=freefem3d&ver=1.0pre3-1&arch=alpha&stamp=1082194809&file=log&as=raw

For each extraction, there is this 'PaxHeaders.8890' that appears (which is 
not present in my tarball of course), then buildd fails lamentably to compile 
freefem3d. Could anyone enlight me on this ? I have no idea where it comes 
from.

thanks in advance

Best regards
C.
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