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Re: tar problems



On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 11:33:45AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:

> After I updated my tar version to the latest in sid, .debs appeared to
> be getting generated in a way such that dpkg -i creates a /DEBIAN
> directory when they get unpacked.  Has anyone seen this before?

It's a bug in the current version of tar in sid - it doesn't honour the 
--no-recursive option. Bdale's uploaded a new version that fixes it, I 
guess it'll be installed tonight.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org



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