Re: Backport tar 1.29 to jessie

[Mert Dirik <mertdirik@gmail.com>]

On 15/06/2016, Julien Aubin <julien.aubin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could you please backport tar 1.29 to jessie ?
>
> It is necessary notably to build newer NVidia driver releases as shown
> there :
> https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Building_newer_releases_from_SVN
>
> This point is at least temporarily required to work around bug 827391
>


Try deleting "--clamp-mtime" and "--sort=name" options from
debian/rules before executing "debian/rules get-orig-source".

I havent't tested it but I can't see any reason why it shouldn't work.