severity 1028970 wishlist
tag 1028970 wontfix
thanks
Marco, tar doesn't document a standard for stderr. In particular, this
looks like a legit warning in either case. Please bring this up with the
software that is broken by it.
On Sun, 15 Jan 2023, 16:51 Marco d'Itri, wrote:
> Package: tar
> Ve
Control: severity -1 critical
> Emitting these warnings to stderr is bad because it breaks other
> software which calls tar and does not expect something on stderr.
And indeed, now lintian starts emitting errors:
E: libcrypt-x509-perl source: unpack-message-for-orig
libcrypt-x509-perl_0.55.orig
Package: tar
Version: 1.34+dfsg-1.1
Severity: important
Emitting these warnings to stderr is bad because it breaks other
software which calls tar and does not expect something on stderr.
Either the warnings are useless, and then they should just be
suppressed, or they are relevant, and then tar
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