Re: Bug#79620: dpkg-source must handle file permissions

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@valinux.com>]

Previously Brian May wrote:
> [681] [snoopy:bam] ~/dangerous >dpkg-source -x dangerous_0.0.dsc
> dpkg-source: extracting dangerous in dangerous-0.0
> dpkg-source: failure: tar -xkf - gave error exit status 2
> [682] [snoopy:bam] ~/dangerous >tar: dangerous-0.0/etc/nsswitch.conf: Cannot open: File exists
> tar: dangerous-0.0/etc/passwd: Cannot open: File exists
> tar: dangerous-0.0/etc/shadow: Cannot open: File exists
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Upgrade your tar, this was fixed a while ago.

Wichert.

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