Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

["John H. Robinson, IV" <jaqque@debian.org>]

Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 04:44:32PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
> > I demand that Bastian Blank may or may not have written...
> > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:08:12AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> > >> Many packages FTBFS (silently!) if an environment variable TAPE is set.
> > > The manpage of tar does not mention the special handling of a environment
> > > variable named TAPE. Nor does tar --help.
> > Nevertheless, it will write to $TAPE. (I've just checked this with 1.16.1-1.)
> > Perhaps dpkg-buildpackage should unset TAPE...?
> No, a bug against tar.

I assume you mean to make the documentation match the behaivour.

Rememer it is a Tape ARchival program.

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