Package: dpkg
Version: 1.18.24
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
Want to build quagga 1.1 on a Jessie machine
won't build because debhelper < version 10
debhelper won't build because dpkg-dev < 1.18
tried to build newer dpkg

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
dpkg-buildpackage in dpkg-1.18.24 on a Jessie machine

   * What was the outcome of this action?
build failed

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
build succeeded


scripts/Dpkg/Source/Archive.pm declares options to the tar command which
are not present before 1.28-1. These options are passed to tar during
the build tests causing the build to fail with Jessie's version 1.27.

tar (>= 1.28-1) is declared in Depends but is not declared in Build-Depends



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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.48 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968), LANGUAGE=C 
(charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0   1.0.6-8.1
ii  libc6        2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  liblzma5     5.2.2-1.2+b1
ii  libselinux1  2.6-3+b1
ii  tar          1.29b-1.1
ii  zlib1g       1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii  apt            1.4.7
pn  debsig-verify  <none>

-- no debconf information

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