Bug#376030: lintian: possible false positive deb-created-with-broken-tar
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.22
Severity: normal
This error appears:
E: dfm: deb-created-with-broken-tar file: /usr/src/net/deb/debian/dfm/build-area/dfm-0.99.9/debian/dfm/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/dfm.mo
Lintian info reads:
N:
N: The binary package was created with a broken version of tar. Some
N: versions of tar contain a bug, which make the resulting .deb broken.
N: On unpack, some filenames are going to be corrupted.
N:
N: This package was build with such a version of tar, and the mentioned
N: filename is corrupted. Refer to Debian bug #230910 for more
N: information, or simply update your tar-version and rebuild.
The #230910 refers to tar version:
Fixed in versions tar/1.13.92-4, tar/1.13.93-2
But the package was made in current unstable using:
Inst tar [1.15.91-1] (1.15.91-1 Debian:unstable)
Please check if this error is false positive, or provide better diagnostics
what would cause the error to be displayed. The package in question
is available at:
http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/debian/dfm
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.17-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.41-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.22 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.17-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.6-1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.34.2+20060621 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchangelog 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl 5.8.8-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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