[Piuparts-devel] Bug#478577: Bug#478577: piuparts: debfoster requires /proc/stat

[Lars Wirzenius]

On to, 2008-05-01 at 11:53 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> i'm wondering whether it wouldn't be better to directly call tar,
> instead of relying on the tarfile module. After all, tar is called
> directly to extract the tarball.
> 
> Piuparts devs, what do you think?

I remember having some problem calling tar directly back in the ancient
pre-history of piuparts, but since I can't remember what it was, and
since it's been almost three years and everything has changed since
then, I say go for it. If it turns out to be a problem, we'll fix it.