Re: on the use of chmod/chown in maintainer scripts

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Guillem Jover writes ("Re: on the use of chmod/chown in maintainer scripts"):
> On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 22:47:22 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > I can't see an equivalent in GNU tar.  But BSD tar is available
> > in Debian.
> 
> This would imply BSD tar needs to be promoted to the Essential set
> alongside GNU tar, at which point I might as well just use an
> internal tar implementation.

???  Are we talking about unpack ?  Because dpkg's unpack code already
has an internal tar implementation.  This is necessary to get all the
file write / rename / conffile / etc. functionality to work properly.

Ian.