+>
+>> It looks as though I only get the same failures as you, so that's no help
+>> (reassuring, though, since we're presumably both running recent Debian).
+>> sunny256's failure cases might just result from the older tar and pristine-tar
+>> on Ubuntu 10.04? --[[smcv]]
+
+>>> Yes, I can reproduce the same failures sunny256 saw using Debian oldstable. Once I
+>>> upgrade pristine-tar and tar, it goes away, so I think it is the 100
+>>> byte filename bug affecting those.
+>>>
+>>> As to the ones we all see fail, I dunno what it is, but probably
+>>> has to do with some kind of historical issue in the versions of
+>>> pristine-tar/tar used to create them. We may never know what went wrong
+>>> there. --[[Joey]] [[done]]