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and subject line Bug#969761: fixed in engrampa 1.28.2-1
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regarding engrampa: Broken tar archive when including symlinks to directories
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Package: engrampa
Version: 1.24.1-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
when creating an archive including a symbolic link to a non-empty directory,
the resulting tar archive contains both a directory with the target content and
a symbolic link who share the same name, resulting in a broken archive.
I investigated a bit the issue which was described by Olivier Humbert on
debian-user-french ML (thread is in French) readable at
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/2020/09/msg00036.html
To reproduce the issue, the following steps should be enough:
workdir="$(mktemp --directory)"
mkdir -p $workdir/base/directory/
touch $workdir/base/directory/empty
ln -s directory $workdir/base/link
engrampa $workdir/base/ -a $workdir/archive.tar && echo 'engrampa OK'
tar tvf $workdir/archive.tar base/link
rm -rfI "$workdir"
The output should be along the lines of:
engrampa OK
hrw-r--r-- user/user 0 2020-09-07 23:26 base/link/empty
lrwxrwxrwx user/user 0 2020-09-07 23:26 base/link -> directory
Trying to extract the archive using `tar xf "$workdir/archive.tar"` gives an
error:
tar: base/link: Cannot create symlink to 'directory': File exists
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Best regards,
David Sinquin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'stable-updates'), (600,
'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages engrampa depends on:
ii bzip2 1.0.8-4
ii engrampa-common 1.24.1-1
ii gzip 1.10-2
ii libc6 2.31-3
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4
ii libcaja-extension1 1.24.0-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.40.0+dfsg-5
ii libglib2.0-0 2.64.4-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.22-1
ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.4.4-2
ii libmagic1 1:5.38-5
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.46.1-1
ii p7zip-full 16.02+dfsg-8
ii tar 1.30+dfsg-7
Versions of packages engrampa recommends:
ii gvfs 1.44.1-1+b1
ii unzip 6.0-25
ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1
ii zip 3.0-11+b1
Versions of packages engrampa suggests:
ii arj 3.10.22-23
ii binutils 2.35-2
ii cpio 2.13+dfsg-2
pn lha <none>
pn lzip <none>
ii lzop 1.04-1
ii ncompress 4.2.4.6-3
ii p7zip-rar 16.02-3
pn rar <none>
ii rpm2cpio 4.14.2.1+dfsg1-1.1+b1
ii rzip 2.1-4.1
ii sharutils 1:4.15.2-5
pn unace <none>
pn unalz <none>
ii unar 1.10.1-2+b6
ii unrar 1:5.6.6-2
ii xz-utils [lzma] 5.2.4-1+b1
pn zoo <none>
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: engrampa
Source-Version: 1.28.2-1
Done: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
engrampa, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]> (supplier of updated engrampa package)
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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:00:57 -0500
Source: engrampa
Built-For-Profiles: noudeb
Architecture: source
Version: 1.28.2-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian+Ubuntu MATE Packaging Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Closes: 969761 1118994
Changes:
engrampa (1.28.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Team upload
* New upstream release (Closes: #969761)
* Remove obsolete Suggests: zoo (Closes: #1118994)
* Remove obsolete Breaks/Replaces
* debian/watch: Convert to Version: 5
* Remove all but one patch: applied in new release
* Bump Standards Version to 4.7.2
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