New submission from Free Ekanayaka f...@64studio.com:
The tar format allows to have memeber files whose path has a leading ./:
$ echo foo
$ tar cf bar.tar ./foo
$ tar tf bar.tar
./foo
However the tarfile module doesn't allow this:
from StringIO import StringIO
from tarfile import TarInfo, TarFile
info = TarInfo(./foo)
fd = open(bar.tar, w)
tar = TarFile.open(fileobj=fd, mode=w)
tar.addfile(info, )
tar.close()
then:
$ tar tf bar.tar
foo
So in practice the tarfile module forces the removal of leading ./'s.
In particular this is a problem when creating .deb files (dpkg)
programmatically as these contains tar files with members with a leading ./.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 108537
nosy: free.ekanayaka
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: TarFile doesn't support member files with a leading ./
type: behavior
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