Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: >> Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote: >>>> Also, the >>>> tar-generated manifest sometimes contains filenames encoded in ways that >>>> pristine-tar does not understand, but tar does, and your patch would >>>> certianly fail then. >>> Could you please provide more detail on this. This is something I'd like >>> to address as well. >> Well, I can't remember examples of such tarballs, but I remember them >> showing up in testing of pristine-tar against the whole Debian archive, >> and having to fix it to deal with that. That's why the $full_sweep code >> exists. >> >> The best thing to do will be to try your code in such a full-archive >> test and see what breaks. >> > > OK .. I am downloading the 5 DVDs from > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.3/amd64/bt-dvd/ and will test > the extension against the tar balls found on these. > > Best regards >
hmm .. just learned that these DVDs do not carry the sources. So cancelling that. Best regards -- Muharem Hrnjadovic <muha...@ubuntu.com> Public key id : B2BBFCFC Key fingerprint : A5A3 CC67 2B87 D641 103F 5602 219F 6B60 B2BB FCFC
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