Bug#727665: lintian: FTBFS: Test failures

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Control: tags -1 confirmed

On 2013-10-25 08:11, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> Source: lintian
> Version: 2.5.19
> Severity: serious
> 
>>From my pbuilder build log:
> 
> [...]
> 

Hi,

I can confirm this failure on (a slightly updated) git master branch;
downgrading tar to the version in testing makes the problems go away.
Odds are recent changes in tar to blame for this; question is now
whether it is a regression in tar or Lintian relying on non-interface bits.

~Niels