[DRE-maint] Bug#458987: Bug#458987: Severity
Lucas Nussbaum
lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net
Sat Feb 9 09:12:17 UTC 2008
severity 458987 normal
thanks
On 09/02/08 at 11:32 +1100, James Healy wrote:
> Over-writing files from other packages isn't serious?
It's serious if a package's files overwrites files in another package.
It's not the case here.
Example:
cd $(mktemp -d)
mkdir etc
touch etc/motd
tar cf etc.tar etc/
And now, "tar -C / -xf etc.tar" overwrites /etc/motd. Is it a serious
bug against tar?
Gems could warn about a file being overwritten, but that's all, I think.
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