Ian Jackson writes ("Bug#1143196: tarballs with explicit toplevel directory
break with pristine-tar"):
> It turns out that the / we see in directory names in tar vv listings
> are *in the tarfile* and *not generated by all tar implementations*!
I was able to reproduce a tarball whose top-level directory didn't end
in `/` as written in the tarfile simply by using pax.
So I think right now probably all pax-generated tarballs don't work.
Ian.
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