[DRE-maint] Bug#458987: Bug#458987: Severity

[Lucas Nussbaum]

severity 458987 normal
thanks

On 09/02/08 at 11:32 +1100, James Healy wrote:
> Over-writing files from other packages isn't serious?

It's serious if a package's files overwrites files in another package.
It's not the case here.

Example:
cd $(mktemp -d)
mkdir etc
touch etc/motd
tar cf etc.tar etc/

And now, "tar -C / -xf etc.tar" overwrites /etc/motd. Is it a serious
bug against tar?

Gems could warn about a file being overwritten, but that's all, I think.
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