Specify --null before the -T option to avoid the

"tar: -: file name read contains nul character" warning.
It was tested with older tar versions.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0c512288b99471afaa555065d0228a1609f11710..020ed1dc1e7f50ba11e75e15de51f523c5b27807 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-07-07  Nicolas François  <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
+
+       * dpkg-deb/build.c: Specify --null before the -T option to avoid
+       the "tar: -: file name read contains nul character" warning.
+
 2006-06-21  Guillem Jover  <guillem@debian.org>
 
        * configure.ac: Bump version to 1.13.23~.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2e6c66ebc05dc5caacbf511d427090bfba1e7480..8bc293c585047e889bc692fbf66048e74080e741 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ dpkg (1.13.23~) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #375118
   * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #376746
 
+  [ Nicolas François ]
+  * Specify --null before the -T tar's option to avoid the "tar: -: file name
+    read contains nul character" warning. Closes: #376351, #375749, #376724
+
  -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:23:39 +0300
 
 dpkg (1.13.22) unstable; urgency=low

diff --git a/dpkg-deb/build.c b/dpkg-deb/build.c
index 41a5fdc7e82b33826a0acd4bb8078a03efa7146c..6c7fc3f0d334df0734cc5d46da118ffb6f1467c7 100644 (file)
--- a/dpkg-deb/build.c
+++ b/dpkg-deb/build.c
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ void do_build(const char *const *argv) {
     m_dup2(p1[0],0); close(p1[0]); close(p1[1]);
     m_dup2(p2[1],1); close(p2[0]); close(p2[1]);
     if (chdir(directory)) ohshite(_("failed to chdir to `%.255s'"),directory);
-    execlp(TAR,"tar","-cf", "-", "-T", "-", "--null", "--no-recursion", (char*)0);
+    execlp(TAR,"tar","-cf", "-", "--null", "-T", "-", "--no-recursion", (char*)0);
     ohshite(_("failed to exec tar -cf"));
   }
   close(p1[0]);