Package: lintian Version: 1.23.21 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hello,
The explanation of deb-created-with-broken-tar says that some versions of tar are broken. I've added to the message a summary of which (Debian) versions this concerns. Furthermore the description has two typos, s/make/makes/, s/build/built/. See attached patch. Thijs -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.17-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.41-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.13.22 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.17-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.14.6-1 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.34.2+20060621 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libparse-debianchangelog 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl 5.8.8-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
diff -ur lintian-1.23.21.orig/checks/deb-format.desc lintian-1.23.21/checks/deb-format.desc --- lintian-1.23.21.orig/checks/deb-format.desc 2004-04-14 01:14:17.000000000 +0200 +++ lintian-1.23.21/checks/deb-format.desc 2006-06-27 12:12:06.000000000 +0200 @@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ Tag: deb-created-with-broken-tar Type: error Info: The binary package was created with a broken version of tar. - Some versions of tar contain a bug, which make the resulting .deb broken. On - unpack, some filenames are going to be corrupted. + Some versions of tar, most notably 1.13.92-1 to 1.13.93-1 contain a bug, + which makes the resulting .deb broken. On unpack, some filenames are going + to be corrupted. . - This package was build with such a version of tar, and the mentioned filename + This package was built with such a version of tar, and the mentioned filename is corrupted. Refer to Debian bug #230910 for more information, or simply update your tar-version and rebuild.
