The following reply was made to PR bin/26362; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sergey Svishchev <svs+pr@grep.ru>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/26362
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 00:51:46 +0400

 This distfile does not have zero-filled blocks at the end -> technically not a valid tar file.
 
 Also,
 
 revision 1.24
 date: 2005/01/21 15:18:58;  author: drochner;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -14
 update to 1.20
 changes:
 -can run out of a Python 2.3 zip archive
 -some fixes and feature additions
 [pkgsrc] this distfile doesn't trigger the pax-as-tar bug, so remove
  the build dependency on GNU tar
 
 -- 
 Sergey Svishchev