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> -- debconf-show failed
