Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.2
Severity: normal
Hi folks
Recently received broken .dsc source packages which I couldn't unpack
from an unnamed software provider; the reason I couldn't unpack them
was because the .orig.tar.gz was actually *double*-gzipped
(".tar.gz.gz" named .tar.gz). I didn't manage to confirm this, but I
infer this was due to setting TAR_OPTIONS=-z in some shell environment
that the packager used. This is transparent to this user as he can
happily pack/unpack things in .tar.gz.gz thanks to this option, but
makes the source packages unusable for everybody else obviously.
I think dpkg needs to unset this var as it's really using tar as a
command-line library for creating tar archive; this interface is not
supposed to be influencable by non-dpkg environment variables like
TAR_OPTIONS IMO.
Thanks,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-rc7-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii coreutils 7.3-1 The GNU core utilities
ii libc6 2.9-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 0.7.21 Advanced front-end for dpkg
-- no debconf information
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Loïc Minier
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