I demand that Bastian Blank may or may not have written... > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:08:12AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: >> Many packages FTBFS (silently!) if an environment variable TAPE is set.
> The manpage of tar does not mention the special handling of a environment > variable named TAPE. Nor does tar --help. Nevertheless, it will write to $TAPE. (I've just checked this with 1.16.1-1.) Perhaps dpkg-buildpackage should unset TAPE...? -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Lobby friends, family, business, government. WE'RE KILLING THE PLANET. Pronounce your prepositions, damn it! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]