Re: New source format and related issues...

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

I wrote:
> Michael Alan Dorman writes ("New source format and related issues..."):
> ...
> > dpkg-source: building hello in hello_1.3.orig.tar.gz
> > tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
> > Try `tar --help' for more information.
> > dpkg-source: failure: tar gave error exit status 2
...
> Well, all I can say is that it doesn't do this for me.

Can you tell me whether 1.3.6 fixes it ?  This looks like it might be
the argument parsing bug in tar that Bruce reported.  1.3.6 has a
workaround.

Ian.