+tar (1.25-4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * add a check to the rules file to ensure test suite is no attempted while
+ building as root, closes: #596268
+
+ -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:46:49 -0700
+
tar (1.25-3) unstable; urgency=low
* cherry-pick some upstream commits that appear to address open bugs
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/
+More recently, I'm directly using the upstream source repository at
+
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git
+
GNU tar is
Copyright (C) 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000,
ifeq (,$(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE),$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE))
+ @runas=`whoami` ; \
+ if test $$runas = "root" ; \
+ then \
+ echo "Sorry, but the test suite is not designed to be run as root."; \
+ exit 1 ;\
+ fi
(cd tests ; $(MAKE) clean)
$(MAKE) check
endif