Bug#1024469: lib/debian/tests/test_debfile.py::TestDebFile::test_control fails when tar(1) is not GNU tar

[Stuart Prescott]

Hi Michał,

Thanks for the intriguing report.

The error is coming from the invocation of dpkg-deb which runs
["tar", "-x", "-m", "-f", "-", "--warning=no-timestamp"]

Do I take it that on your system dpkg-deb exists but is entirely 
non-functional because it can't actually work with any archives?

If that's the case, I guess the real solution is fixing dpkg-deb. In the 
meantime, I'll need to think about how the test can navigate its way 
around a broken dpkg-deb being installed — at present, it assumes that 
the tools it finds are not broken.

regards
Stuart

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