Debian Bug report logs - #264050
tar: Strange message on Debian source package extraction

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: tar: Strange message on Debian source package extraction

Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 23:57:06 +0200

Package: tar
Version: 1.14-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

I got:

============================================================================
$ apt-get source fhist
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 267kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://ftp.dk.debian.org sarge/main fhist 1.13-1 (dsc) [676B]
Get:2 http://ftp.dk.debian.org sarge/main fhist 1.13-1 (tar) [264kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.dk.debian.org sarge/main fhist 1.13-1 (diff) [2757B]          
Fetched 267kB in 15s (17.3kB/s)                                                
dpkg-source: extracting fhist in fhist-1.13
tar: Read 1024 bytes from -
$
============================================================================

Note the last output line before the prompt ("$"). I don't get this one
for other source packages. I think this is related to tar, although I
don't have the time now to dive deeper into this, just wanted to report
before I forget it...

Thanks for considering.

bye,
  Roland

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)

Versions of packages tar depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 264050@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jorrit Fahlke <jorrit@jorrit.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <264050@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: tar: same thing with other packages

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:16:36 +0100

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Package: tar
Version: 1.13.93-4
Followup-For: Bug #264050

Hi!

I see the same thing with ncurses_5.4.orig.tar.gz:
======================================================================
joe@mars:~/src/ncurses$ tar xzf ncurses_5.4.orig.tar.gz 
tar: Read 6656 bytes from ncurses_5.4.orig.tar.gz
joe@mars:~/src/ncurses$ tar xzf - <ncurses_5.4.orig.tar.gz
tar: Read 6656 bytes from -
joe@mars:~/src/ncurses$ tar xf - <ncurses_5.4.orig.tar
tar: Read 6656 bytes from -
joe@mars:~/src/ncurses$ tar xf ncurses_5.4.orig.tar
joe@mars:~/src/ncurses$ 
======================================================================

I see the message only when reading the archive from stdin, or when
reading the gzipped archive.

Jö.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-586tsc
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8@euro (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages tar depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- no debconf information

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Message #13 received at 264050-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>

To: 264050-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#264050: tar: same thing with other packages

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 06:40:11 -0500

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On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:00:23AM +0100, Jorrit Fahlke wrote:
> Package: tar
> Version: 1.13.93-4
> Followup-For: Bug #264050
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I see the same thing with ncurses_5.4.orig.tar.gz:

fwiw, ncurses' tarball is done with Solaris tar (since there are 1-2
filenames longer than 100 characters, making GNU tar unsuitable for
this purpose).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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Message #18 received at 264050-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>

To: 264050-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: fixed

Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:43:37 -0700

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This bug is no longer present in modern versions of tar in Debian.

Bdale

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