Bug#224770: debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:01:30PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> One of the examples listed in B.1 is not correct and does not work.
> To view the copyright file for a package you could use this command:
>
> - dpkg --fsys-tarfile filename.deb | tar xof usr/share/doc/\*copyright | less
> + dpkg --fsys-tarfile filename.deb | tar xOf - \*/copyright | less
Ehm, I committed a fix for this ages ago. I guess we haven't released the
new version yet.
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