Bug#1028975: allegedly, tar warnings are not errors
Hi Marco,
Marco d'Itri wrote:
> tar complains to stderr about features of archives that it does not
> understand, but the maintainer says that this is all right and consumers
> of tar's output need to deal with it (see #1028970 for details).
Legit IMHO. Thanks for the bug report.
> How to reproduce:
>
> $ libcrypt-x509-perl_0.55-1_amd64.changes
> Warning in processable ./libcrypt-x509-perl_0.55-1.dsc: Tried to issue duplicate hint in check unpack: unpack-message-for-source tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'LIBARCHIVE.xattr.com.apple.lastuseddate#PS'
> E: libcrypt-x509-perl source: unpack-message-for-orig libcrypt-x509-perl_0.55.orig.tar.gz . tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'LIBARCHIVE.xattr.com.apple.lastuseddate#PS'
> W: libcrypt-x509-perl source: newer-standards-version 4.6.2.0 (current is 4.6.1.0)
>
> If this is not a real error then maybe it should have pedantic severity
> instead.
I tend to ignore any tar STDERR output saying "tar: Ignoring" as
solution for this issue. Do you think that should suffice?
Regards, Axel
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