Re: [Bug-tar] Fwd: [regression] tar mess up \ and \\ files

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Nathan Stratton Treadway
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 12:55:34 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> newer tar (1.27.1)has a serious regression compared to 1.27.
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:33:56 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> Yes they should be indeed treated literally. I use shell completion
>> and it is pretty natural to get the name as is.
>
> Can you give us more information about how tar is actually being called
> by lintian?  (I found Debian bug #740199, but it doesn't give any
> details about the actual tar command being used by the test or in what
> manner it's failing.)
>
> Are you sure there was a change in behavior of the test between tar
> 1.27 and 1.27.1?  As mentioned earlier in this thread, the unquoting
> behavior of file names mentioned in a -T file did change between those
> two versions, but the behavior for filenames specified on the command
> line shouldn't have changed...  (And even for -T, the behavior in
> 1.27.1 should match the behavior of earlier versions other than 1.27
> itself.)

I have reproduced manually the test by running tar command. The
command are run by dpkg in order to create debian package.

I could check the source if needed, but they are clearly a behavior
change in the command line between the two versions.

Bastien

>>
>> Could you give us a solution in either way ?
>
> As also mentioned earlier in the thread, adding the --no-unquote option
> to the "tar -cf test.tar *" invocation should produce the behavior you
> were expecting in the example commands you gave in your original email
> -- but if that's necessary for the lintian test to succeed when using
> tar 1.27.1, I am not sure why the test wasn't failing in the same way
> with pre-1.27 versions....
>
>                                                 Nathan
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