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apt-ftparchive, apt-extracttemplates fail on packages created with GNU ar

Bug #308317 reported by Mark Painter
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Bug Description

The ar implementation used by apt does not deal with file names ending in /, which causes problems with things like apt-ftparchive and apt-extracttemplates on packages generated with GNU ar, which do have a trailing /.

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Mark Painter (mpainter) wrote :
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Mark Painter (mpainter) wrote :
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Torsten Spindler (tspindler) wrote :

According to the upstream bug this has been fixed in Lucid.

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks, this was fixed in apt 0.7.20

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Changed in apt:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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