Work around change in longlink fields in tar 1.27. (Needs PRISTINE_TAR_COMPAT patch...

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 04cb6ce..bba09cf 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ pristine-tar (1.30) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   * Set GIT_WORK_TREE when committing to make it work when inside
     a git submodule. Thanks, Victor Vasiliev. Closes: #726007
+  * Work around change in longlink fields in tar 1.27.
+    (Needs PRISTINE_TAR_COMPAT patch applied to tar.)
+    Closes: #726963
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 27 Oct 2013 12:31:30 -0400
 

diff --git a/pristine-tar b/pristine-tar
index 40ed069..0bf44e8 100755 (executable)
--- a/pristine-tar
+++ b/pristine-tar
@@ -189,6 +189,10 @@ $ENV{LANG}='C';
 delete $ENV{TAR_OPTIONS};
 delete $ENV{TAPE};
 
+# Ask tar to please be compatable with version 1.26.
+# In version 1.27, it changed some fields used in longlink entries.
+$ENV{PRISTINE_TAR_COMPAT}=1;
+
 # The following two assignments are potentially munged during the
 # build process to hold the values of TAR_PROGRAM and XDELTA_PROGRAM
 # parameters as given to Makefile.PL.