On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> the command
> 
>     dpkg-source -b foobar-1.0~
> 
> fails to create a valid tarball for a native package (did not try
> non-native) because the directory name ends with a tilde. If I
> uncompress the 45 bytes .tar.gz, I get a file that consists of
> 10240 '\0' bytes, nothing else.

It's sort of normal... with source format "3.0 (native)" many files are
ignored by default and it includes all those that end with a tilde.

I've added a tweak now to avoid matching the top-level directory though...

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