diff --git a/vfs/ChangeLog b/vfs/ChangeLog
index f81cffe4f..294425423 100644
--- a/vfs/ChangeLog
+++ b/vfs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2000-01-02  Martin Bialasinski <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>
-	
+
+	* extfs/deb.in: Change to the deb vfs. tar has changed, and
+	depending on the version, it saves files as "./filename" or
+	"filename".
+
 	* From debian: added deba, debd, dpkg, apt script file systems. 
 
 1999-12-21  Pavel Roskin  <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>
diff --git a/vfs/extfs/deb.in b/vfs/extfs/deb.in
index 1af3dbd7b..c68bdab21 100644
--- a/vfs/extfs/deb.in
+++ b/vfs/extfs/deb.in
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 #         (add by Michael Bramer Debian-mc-maintainer <grisu@debian.org>)
 #         (to allow access to package control files)
 #
+# Modified by Martin Bialasinski <martinb@debian.org> 1999
+#         (deal with change in tar format)
 #
 #
 # Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation
@@ -131,8 +133,9 @@ sub mcdebfs_copyout
 	}
 	else
 	{
+	# files can be prepended with ./ or not, depending on the version of tar
 		$filename=~s!^CONTENTS/!!;
-		system("dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile $archive | tar xOf - $filename > $destfile");
+		system("dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile $archive | tar xOf - $filename ./$filename > $destfile 2>/dev/null");
 	}
 }
 
@@ -167,7 +170,7 @@ sub mcdebfs_run
 $pressinstall=<<EOInstall;
 
                               WARNING
-     Don't use this method if you are not willing to reinstall everything...
+     Don\'t use this method if you are not willing to reinstall everything...
 
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