Bug#217023: breaks lintian completely

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Tue, November 9, 2010 08:08, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> it looks like something was done recently in that direction and now it's
> completely broken. It causes an internal failure of lintian, see below.
> The sad thing is: I would like to _have_ the dangling symlinks. And have
> a proper check which I can suppress.
> lintian
> /home/ed/debian/dev/build-area/apt-cacher-ng_0.5.10-1_amd64.changes
> /bin/tar: ./var/lib/apt-cacher-ng: Cannot utime: No such file or directory

Nope. That's tar #602209 and friends, caused by the new upstream in tar
1.24-1 and fixed in 1.24-1.1.

Regards,

Adam