Bug#230457: dpkg-dev: newest tar causes tons of warning messages from dpkg-scanpackages

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Subject: dpkg-dev: newest tar causes tons of warning messages from dpkg-scanpackages
Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.10.18
Severity: minor

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Just upgraded to tar 1.13.92-1 in Sid.
                                                                                
This causes the command:
$ dpkg-scanpackages latest /dev/null > Packages
tar: Removing leading `./' from member names
tar: Removing leading `./' from member names
tar: Removing leading `./' from member names
[repeated hundreds of times]
                                                                                
These warning messages did not appear with the previous version,
1.13.25-6.  The workaround is to pipe stderr through grep to ignore
these warnings.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux desk 2.4.24 #1 Sun Jan 18 19:36:43 PST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on:
ii  binutils                   2.14.90.0.7-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  cpio                       2.5-1.1       GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  make                       3.80-4        The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  patch                      2.5.9-1       Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl [perl5]               5.8.3-1       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules               5.8.3-1       Core Perl modules.

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