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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:26:26 +0200
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David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org> skribis:
>>
>>> The official distribution is somewhat of a mess.  The zip archive
>>> requires a patch that must be applied during a build step because our
>>> patch-and-repack can't handle "tarbombs".
>>
>> What do you mean by =E2=80=9Ctarbombs=E2=80=9D?
>
> A tarball that doesn't store it's contents within a root directory, that
> pollutes the directory you unpack it in.

Oh OK, I didn=E2=80=99t know there was a name for that.  :-)

So indeed, =E2=80=98patch-and-repack=E2=80=99 doesn=E2=80=99t handle it, an=
d the =E2=80=98unpack=E2=80=99 phase
may not do what you=E2=80=99d expect, assuming there is something to be
expected.

Ludo=E2=80=99.