I wrote: > Michael Alan Dorman writes ("New source format and related issues..."): > ... > > dpkg-source: building hello in hello_1.3.orig.tar.gz > > tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive > > Try `tar --help' for more information. > > dpkg-source: failure: tar gave error exit status 2 ... > Well, all I can say is that it doesn't do this for me.
Can you tell me whether 1.3.6 fixes it ? This looks like it might be the argument parsing bug in tar that Bruce reported. 1.3.6 has a workaround. Ian.