On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:39:24PM +0200, Øystein Gisnås wrote: > severity 375749 minor > quit > > This does not look like a serious after all, so I downgrade severity. I > live it to others, though, to decide if it should be closed altogether > or not.
Yes, this warning is harmless. But it is quite annoying. I sent some comments to #375864 (see below). I will wait bdale's answer to check if dpkg should change the way it calls tar or not. > dpkg-deb is basically doing something like: > > find . -path ./DEBIAN -prune -o -print0 | \ > tar -cf - -T - --null --no-recursion > > I think that when --null is specified, tar should not warn. > > Note: the warning is not displayed with the following command: > > find . -path ./DEBIAN -prune -o -print0 | \ > tar --null -cf - -T - --no-recursion > > > Do you think it could be possible to read all the arguments before calling > update_argv? > Or do you think dpkg-deb should specify --null before -T (is it OK for the > previous versions of tar)? Kind Regards, -- Nekral
