tarfile.TarFile.extractall not setting directory permissions correctly

[eandres]

BPO	1735
Nosy	@gustaebel
Files	python-tarfile-extractall-fix.patch: Patch for tarfile.py

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title = 'tarfile.TarFile.extractall not setting directory permissions correctly'
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[eandres]

The tarfile.TarFile.extractall() method is [by default] silently failing
to set directory permissions and times on all but the lexically-latest
directory extracted. This is due to an unintentional re-use of the
'path' variable.

The provided patch renames the second 'path' variable to 'dirpath' which
resolves the problem.

[gustaebel]

Thanks for the patch. I added a testcase and applied it to the trunk,
see r59712. Python 2.5 follows later on.

[gustaebel]

Committed to release25-maint branch as r59713.