Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.4.0.31 I've just wanted to check a packages contents and control information, and it made my /tmp almost unusable. I did tar xzvf control.tar.gz in /tmp, and since control.tar.gz contains drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-02-01 19:21 ./ it rewrote the perms of /tmp to 755 -> I got a non-working /tmp. It may happen in other directories, even when not run as root... I guess the reason for this is that debian/tmp/DEBIAN was tarred as the current directory. The above case shows that it should be avoided, so it would be nicer if tar was called with tar <options> * instead of tar <options> .
-- System Information Debian Release: 2.0 Kernel Version: Linux mlf 2.0.36 #1 Tue Feb 2 12:46:29 CET 1999 i586 unknown Versions of the packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii perl 5.004.04-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
