Comment 8 for bug 399938

James, yes, I see this with bzr-builddeb, with bzr-builddeb and even with python.

Last month, we discussed that on irc.

It's not all tarballs, but some tarballs, and it's 100% reproducible.
http://paste.ubuntu.com/209301/
http://www.sofaraway.org/ubuntu/tmp/songbird_1.3.0~a~svn20090703r14148.orig.tar.gz