[DRE-commits] r1805 - packages-wip/libmocha-ruby/trunk/debian

[terceiro-guest at alioth.debian.org]

Author: terceiro-guest
Date: 2007-08-01 22:39:17 +0000 (Wed, 01 Aug 2007)
New Revision: 1805

Modified:
   packages-wip/libmocha-ruby/trunk/debian/README.Debian-sources
Log:
updating info about corrupted tarballs from upstream



Modified: packages-wip/libmocha-ruby/trunk/debian/README.Debian-sources
===================================================================
--- packages-wip/libmocha-ruby/trunk/debian/README.Debian-sources	2007-08-01 22:15:51 UTC (rev 1804)
+++ packages-wip/libmocha-ruby/trunk/debian/README.Debian-sources	2007-08-01 22:39:17 UTC (rev 1805)
@@ -8,4 +8,9 @@
 error (at least while I can't solve this with upstream, which I am trying to
 do).
 
+More specifically, this problema is caused by two extra bytes at the end of the
+tarball, namely 0d0a in hexadecimal, the popular newline sequence "\n\r". Just
+removing the last two bytes of the tarball with and hex editor (":h
+hex-editing" in vim) is enough to make the tarball uncompress cleanly.
+
  -- Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at softwarelivre.org>  Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:27:45 -0300