Hi! On Sat, 2017-09-30 at 12:11:34 -0400, William Herrin wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.18.24 > Severity: normal
> 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 Indeed! Nice catch, I've queued a patch fixing this targetting the 1.18.x series. Thanks, Guillem