Adjust copyright extraction command for new tar behavior

* Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
  extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
  behavior.  Thanks, Yan Morin.  (Closes: #503685)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f8669439f66e8ba666804d41987444dd734858ac..4772585a2c55bb2cbfc57ecb1ae624fdea8841af 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ debian-policy (3.8.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
     messages.  Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
     uniformly.  Thanks, Julian Andres Klode.  (Closes: #492624)
+  * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
+    extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
+    behavior.  Thanks, Yan Morin.  (Closes: #503685)
   * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
     status on success to avoid double-negatives.
 

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 5e7a28704863e6a6a08da906ecf080d4a17c4c4d..7de382d39ff9ba4dd367575ecbb95db7f64518ad 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -9296,7 +9296,7 @@ install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/foobar.info
          </example>
          To view the copyright file for a package you could use this command:
          <example>
-  dpkg --fsys-tarfile <var>filename</var>.deb | tar xOf - \*/copyright | pager
+  dpkg --fsys-tarfile <var>filename</var>.deb | tar xOf - --wildcards \*/copyright | pager
          </example>
        </p>
       </sect>