On 11/08/15 at 21:36 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Control: tag -1 severity minor > > Hi, > > On Wed, 27 May 2015 12:21:29 +0200 Joachim Breitner <[email protected] > > wrote: > > is anyone working on this bug in tar? A contributor to the Haskell Group > > has just tripped over it, and it would be really nice if the > > Files-Excluded feature would work reliably. > > JFTR, as upstream writes at > https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/delete.html it is > known that this feature is broken unless tar is used in piping mode. > > The next uscan version will have a work-round in place. > > Therefore marking this as severity minor.
I took a look at this bug, and noticed that it only breaks with some archives. For example, it breaks with https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SR/SRI/Mojolicious-6.08.tar.gz but doesn't if you unpack and repack that tarball. - Lucas
