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and subject line Re: [regression] tar mess up \ and \\ files
has caused the Debian Bug report #740199,
regarding [regression] tar mess up \ and \\ files
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Package: tar
Version: 1.27.1-1
Severity: serious
Serious because it is a regression and it break at least lintian...
strange name is a tar regression:
bastien@bastien-debian:/tmp/testcase$ ls
'\ \ \\
bastien@bastien-debian:/tmp/testcase$ tar -cf test.tar *
bastien@bastien-debian:/tmp/testcase$ tar -tf test.tar
'\\
\\
\\
bastien@bastien-debian:/tmp/testcase$ mkdir extract
bastien@bastien-debian:/tmp/testcase$ cd extract/
bastien@bastien-debian:/tmp/testcase/extract$ tar -xf ../test.tar
bastien@bastien-debian:/tmp/testcase/extract$ ls
'\ \
bastien@bastien-debian:/tmp/testcase/extract$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.27.1
Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Licence GPLv3+ : GNU GPL version 3 ou ultérieure
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
Ceci est un logiciel libre : vous êtes libre de le modifier et de le
redistribuer.
Il est fourni SANS GARANTIE, dans la mesure de ce que permet la loi.
Écrit par John Gilmore et Jay Fenlason.
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Source: tar
Source-Version: 1.27.1-1
Control: found -1 1.27-1
Control: notfound -1 1.27.1-1
Hi,
The bug was forwarded to [1]. The issue seems to have been caused by
tar not "unquoting" files passed via -T in 1.27 and that was fixed
1.27.1. As dpkg-deb creates the data.tar with -T, this seems like a
reasonable explanation for the change in behaviour that the Lintian
maintainers saw between 1.27 and 1.27.1. The current behaviour should
be the same as << 1.27, if I understood upstream correctly.
Thus, I am marking this bug as found in 1.27-1 and closing it now as
fixed in 1.27.1-1.
~Niels
[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2014-03/msg00001.html
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