Joachim Breitner <nome...@debian.org> writes: > Hi,
hello Andreas, Joachim, mentors, > Am Sonntag, den 09.08.2015, 11:23 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille: >> On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 09:56:41AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: >> > I’m missing the context of this mail, >> >> context is in the debian-mentors archive[1] >> >> > but if it is a work-around for >> > the tar bug >> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748244 >> > then I’d really rather like to see that bug fixed in tar! >> >> While I agree I think this workaround could be stored in BTS anyway. > > thanks for the context. Indeed the work-around is a good one (comparted > to say, extracting the archive, deleting the file, compressing it > again), and I would not object a patch that uses that form of invoking > tar in mk-origtargz. I filed a bug in the bug-tar ML (I don't think there is a bug-tracker for tar?): http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2015-08/msg00006.html but I don't think it will be fixed soon (they might even not fix it and add a stderr warning for in-place deletion or even disable the feature). Thanks for pointing out #748244. Did anyone actually file a bug against tar? A search does not reveal anything Debian-related: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=--delete&submit=Search!&idxname=bug-tar&max=20&result=normal&sort=date%3Alate (but there is already one other bug report for in-place deletion from 2014) I don't mind fixing this (in the next few days), but also see no problem in filing a tag=newcomer bug against devscripts ("[mk-origtargz]") for fixing in debconf, mentioning the workaround. (This is a pretty bad bug, but it's already broken in jessie, so it probably doesn't matter whether it's fixed tomorrow or next month) Cheers and Best Regards, -- Felix Natter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87wpx4myjh....@bitburger.home.felix
