Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:

> @@ -710,6 +710,7 @@
>                     "listed by tar as \`$_'");
>          $fn= $filesinarchive[$efix++]; $mode= $1;
>          if ($mode =~ m/^l/) { $_ =~ s/ -\> .*//; }
> +        if (/ link to /) { $_ =~ s/ link to .*//; }
>          substr($_,length($_)-length($fn)-1) eq " $fn" ||
>              &error("tarfile \`$tarfileread' contains unexpected object".
>                     " listed by tar as \`$_', expected \`$fn'");
> 

This fix for /usr/bin/dpkg-source has fixed the problem for me. I can now
extract from the orig.tar.gz with no errors.

Thanks Heiko!

Dwarf

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