Bug#5045: if dpkg-source can determine a directory isn't in a tar, it can create it too
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Ian Jackson, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>The file I wrote which tells people how to unpack a Debian source
>package on a non-Debian system tells people to create the debian
>subdirectory, but doesn't mention any others.
>
>For this reason any other new subdirectories are forbidden at the
>moment.
Okay. This could especially be a problem considering that dpkg-source
is written in perl. It's true that perl is distributed with the base
disks but I'd like it if people could build perl without having perl
installed in case something gets really broken. This is an issue for
bo.
>Also, if this is to be changed care needs to be taken that the
>directory name is sensible and that the proper security precautions
>are taken.
Yes, this part I already realized.
Darren
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