Bug#32828: dpkg-dev: control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz containing ./

[Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>]

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Ian Jackson wrote: 
> 
> > There might be dotfiles in DEBIAN.
> 
> This should not be a problem. If the tar invocation is changed from
> "tar <options> ."  to "tar <options> *"  as the reporter suggests, these
> dotfiles would be included as well because they are inside the
> DEBIAN directory. Look:

No, this is not the case, because those files are not tarred with the
DEBIAN directory, but inside...
Anyway it could be * .* with . and .. excluded

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