Re: Another weird tar issue (100 character filenames)

2006-07-09 Thread Ingo Saitz
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:09:40PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:07:03AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > It sounds like a bug that dpkg is using the old v7 tar format which > > had that 99 char limitation.s tar has a fixed-length field for short (upto 100 bytes) fi

Re: Another weird tar issue (100 character filenames)

2006-06-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 13:09 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > But on the other hand, according to the 'be strict in what you send, > liberal in what you accept' mantra, it makes sense for tar to not create > tarfiles which in the past have caused issues for certain programs while > there's a p

Re: Another weird tar issue (100 character filenames)

2006-06-27 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:07:03AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just built new xml-security-c packages to fix the current FTBFS bug, and > > lintian returned the following error message: > > > > E: libxml-security-c-doc: deb-created-with-broken-tar f

Re: Another weird tar issue (100 character filenames)

2006-06-27 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 11:07, Roger Leigh wrote: --cut-- > > (along with several other files). These filenames are indeed exactly 100 > > characters long, as mentioned in the referenced bug. The bug, however, > > indicates that this may not have really been a bug in tar but rather was > > a bug

Re: Another weird tar issue (100 character filenames)

2006-06-27 Thread Roger Leigh
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just built new xml-security-c packages to fix the current FTBFS bug, and > lintian returned the following error message: > > E: libxml-security-c-doc: deb-created-with-broken-tar file: > /usr/share/doc/libxml-security-c-doc/c/apiDocs/winutils_2XSECBinH

Another weird tar issue (100 character filenames)

2006-06-26 Thread Russ Allbery
I just built new xml-security-c packages to fix the current FTBFS bug, and lintian returned the following error message: E: libxml-security-c-doc: deb-created-with-broken-tar file: /usr/share/doc/libxml-security-c-doc/c/apiDocs/winutils_2XSECBinHTTPURIInputStream_8hpp-source.html N: N: The bina