New submission from Free Ekanayaka <[email protected]>:
The tar format allows to have memeber files whose path has a leading "./":
$ echo > foo
$ tar cf bar.tar ./foo
$ tar tf bar.tar
./foo
However the tarfile module doesn't allow this:
>>> from StringIO import StringIO
>>> from tarfile import TarInfo, TarFile
>>> info = TarInfo("./foo")
>>> fd = open("bar.tar", "w")
>>> tar = TarFile.open(fileobj=fd, mode="w")
>>> tar.addfile(info, "")
>>> tar.close()
then:
$ tar tf bar.tar
foo
So in practice the tarfile module forces the removal of leading "./"'s.
In particular this is a problem when creating .deb files (dpkg)
programmatically as these contains tar files with members with a leading "./".
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 108537
nosy: free.ekanayaka
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: TarFile doesn't support member files with a leading "./"
type: behavior
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