Hi Bas, You could write 'tar cfz file.tgz files' instead of 'tar -c -f file.tgz -z files'. Seems that looking for a missing '-f' or 'f' would be pretty error-prone and much more difficult than a simple "test ! -s watchdog.tar" after building the package.
My point is: We need some central quality check here, however it is done. Many packages use 'tar' in their rules file. Surely every maintainer should verify his/her own package. But in this case a central check would be cheap and easy to implement. Almost zero effort compared to the damage done by corrupting tapes. Regards Harri ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
Hi Harald! It should also be possible to detect with with lintian, I would think. Simply checking for a tar invocation without -f option should do the trick. Regards, Bas.
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