Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.6 Severity: minor Dear dpkg maintainers,
dpkg-deb creates the tarfiles inside a .deb using tar -T without using --no-unquote. This can cause issues when a filename contains one or more "\"-characters, as tar will strip one level of blackslahes (due to --unqoute being the default). Thus a file named \\ will be renamed to \ in the process (and e.g. "\a" becomes "a"[1]). If this causes two files to have the same name, tar will consider of them a hardlink of other (discarding its content, as it is assumed to be the same as the other one). I have filed this as "minor", since (to my knowledge) the only packages containing files affected by this are found solely in the Lintian test suite[2]. ~Niels [1] I believe it will also do some translation. E.g. turn something like "\060" into a literal "0". [2] E.g. t/tests/files-tar-traps - can be run from the source via: $ mkdir debian/test-out $ t/runtests t debian/test-out files-tar-traps Also, consider opening t/tests/files-tar-traps/pre_build and have it enable the last line or add other "funny" named files as needed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
