[Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Broken inventory behaviour for tla 1.2 tarball

[Andrew Suffield]

Name: inventory cwd affects behaviour
Severity: serious

I spotted this one because the tla 1.2 tarball contains a spurious
file:

address@hidden:~/arch/dists/tla/tla-1.2$ tar ztf ../tla_1.2.orig.tar.gz | grep 
orig
tla-1.2/src/hackerlab/{arch}/hackerlab/hackerlab--giles/hackerlab--giles--1.0/address@hidden/patch-log/patch-1.orig

This tarball was presumably created by feeding the output of 
inventory -s --all --nested to tar, so I wondered how this
happened. Here's how:

address@hidden:~/tmp/tla-1.2$ tla inventory 
src/hackerlab/{arch}/hackerlab/hackerlab--giles/hackerlab--giles--1.0/address@hidden/patch-log
 | grep orig
S  
src/hackerlab/{arch}/hackerlab/hackerlab--giles/hackerlab--giles--1.0/address@hidden/patch-log/patch-1.orig

address@hidden:~/tmp/tla-1.2/src/hackerlab/{arch}/hackerlab/hackerlab--giles/hackerlab--giles--1.0/address@hidden/patch-log$
 tla inventory | grep orig
B  patch-1.orig

Same file, different classification depending on where you run inventory.

[The point where it changes is between src/hackerlab and src/hackerlab/{arch}/]

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