Ian Jackson writes ("Bug#1143196: tarballs with explicit toplevel directory
break with pristine-tar"):
> 2. In this case the tarfile listing looks like this:
>
> drwxr-xr-x olaf/olaf 0 2026-07-26 03:34 HTTP-Cookies-6.12
> -rw-r--r-- olaf/olaf 19640 2026-07-26 03:34 HTTP-Cookies-6.12/LICENSE
> -rw-r--r-- olaf/olaf 2411 2026-07-26 03:34 HTTP-Cookies-6.12/INSTALL
It turns out that the / we see in directory names in tar vv listings
are *in the tarfile* and *not generated by all tar implementations*!
Ian.
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