[New-bugs-announce] [issue6054] tarfile normalizes arcname

[mkv]

New submission from mkv <mvirkkil at cc.hut.fi>:

When creating tar archives using the tarfile module, requested arc names
are not respected. 

It is currently impossible to create a tar which when listing contents
would give:
$tar tvf test.tar
./
./control
./prerm
./postinst

The actual result will be
$tar tvf test.tar
./
control
prerm
postinst

This is caused by TarInfo's tobuf method calling normpath() on all file
names, even when the user has explicitly specified a certain name.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 88033
nosy: mkv
severity: normal
status: open
title: tarfile normalizes arcname
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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