Bug#523408: lintian says "file: unrecognized option `--lzma'" with 3.0 format.

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 21:31 +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> Oh, you're right!  I realized (after sending the mail above) that I
> had accidentally called "tar -cf --lzma ..." by accident, before I
> successfully created the .orig.tar.lzma.  So there was a file CALLED
> --lzma in the source tarball or in the working tree (or both).

Yeah, that would do it. :-)

> So this sounds like my fault, but in future perhaps lintian should
> called "file -- foo" instead of just "file foo"?

I've just committed a fix that does exactly that.

Regards,

Adam