gtar 1.13.17: option --keep-old-files fails when ./ is present in archive

[Michael Pronath]

 I've got a tar archive where the current directory "." is a part
 of the archive:
 
 > tar tzvf ~/spice3f5sbins.tar.gz
 drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 1998-04-15 07:18 ./
 drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 1998-04-15 07:15 spice3f5/
 drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 1998-04-15 05:35 spice3f5/conf/
 ...
 
 when I extract this archive with "tar xzf" everything works fine.
 
 If I use the option --keep-old-files with gtar 1.12 it works.
 If I use the option --keep-old-files with gtar 1.13.17, it doesn't:
 
 > tar xzkf ~/spice3f5sbins.tar.gz
 tar: .: Cannot mkdir: File exists
 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
 


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