Hi! On Sat, 2014-04-05 at 11:12:55 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.17.6 > Severity: minor
> dpkg-deb creates the tarfiles inside a .deb using tar -T without using > --no-unquote. This can cause issues when a filename contains one or > more "\"-characters, as tar will strip one level of blackslahes (due > to --unqoute being the default). > > Thus a file named \\ will be renamed to \ in the process (and > e.g. "\a" becomes "a"[1]). If this causes two files to have the same > name, tar will consider of them a hardlink of other (discarding its > content, as it is assumed to be the same as the other one). > > I have filed this as "minor", since (to my knowledge) the only > packages containing files affected by this are found solely in the > Lintian test suite[2]. Nice catch, thanks, fixed in my local tree and will be included in my next push targetting 1.17.7, which should hopefully happen *this* weekend, if the final testing and re-reviews look good. Regards, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
