[dev] lone zero blocks in released tarballs

[Ralf Lang]

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Am 09.12.2012 18:16, schrieb Mathieu Parent:
> Hi Horde Team,
> 
> #10981 is back again: $ LANG=C tar -xvzf ansel-2.0.2.tgz 
> package.xml tar: A lone zero block at 175
> 
> This affects at least ansel 2.0.2 and sesha 1.0.0~rc1. This is due
> to a bug on Archive_Tar, that has been fixed (in 1.3.9, see 
> https://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=19289) but some of you
> probably have the bogus version.
> 
> Can someone upload a new version of those two packages without this
> problem?
> 
> 
> PS: I know that this can be workarounded with -i flag while 
> decompressing, but some tools are calling tar direclty and I don't 
> want to patch all those tools.

This is also an issue for me (distribution packaging) but I resorted
to non-recent versions or repackaging for tests (which prevents
inclusion into the distribution itself).


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