Subject: Bug#4195: dpkg-source and new tar package don't mix

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 96 22:14 PDT

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.3.5

The latest iteration of the tar package unfortunately is not able to
understand the "--" flag. I suggest you not use that flag in dpkg-source
for now.

	Thanks

	Bruce

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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 96 19:31 BST

> understand the "--" flag. I suggest you not use that flag in dpkg-source

Thanks for pointing out what was wrong.

I have worked around this in 1.3.6 by removing the `--' argument.
However, this will cause dpkg-source to break if the next argument
ever starts with a `-' so I do not propose to leave this workaround in
permanently.

I shall leave this bug report open against dpkg so that I do not
forget to change it.

Ian.