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Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set



Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> writes:

> Why should we force 7000+ source packages clean their environment when
> debuild/pbuilder/sbuild etc will do that anyway? Worse, it's not even
> trivial to clean environment in a Makefile.

In this particular case, there's no need to clean the environment.  Just
use an explicit f argument to tar rather than relying on a dubious default
that's changed over the years.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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