Re: [Patch] tar exec: use --no-recursion before -T option

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 01:29:03 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> I promised report this little issue upstream [1] : 

Thanks for taking the time to report this upstream!

> Some backported a fix for gnu tar (bug #1230762 [2] ) to fix amanda
> backup software, this however caused problems with dpkg in Fedora.  The
> problem is that 'dpkg-build' calls 'tar' with --no-recursion speficied
> "after" -T option, in this case --no-recursion has no effect on members
> specified before.

Right, this was reported to me some time ago by Richard Purdie,
and got already fixed in 1.18.2, for both the dpkg-deb issue and
a potential similar issue I noticed in the perl modules:

<http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=fcfe4f3aa2f3cb7f8179d4f2fe6dd65e75f7bbdf>
<http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=02e2060504f1c8dbbe5dec8211beaf945350c789>

My plan was to keep it in 1.18.x for a bit, to get it tested, and then
backport it to the 1.16.x and 1.17.x branches.

Thanks,
Guillem