Hmm, not sure why it worked yesterday, but this is better.coverage-3.4b2

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/distcmd/fixtar.py b/distcmd/fixtar.py
index 1a226cb..c613c9d 100644
--- a/distcmd/fixtar.py
+++ b/distcmd/fixtar.py
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ class fixtar(Command):
         for itarinfo in itar:
             otarinfo = otar.gettarinfo(itarinfo.name)
             if the_dir is None:
-                n = itarinfo.name
-                assert n.count("/") == 1 and n.endswith("/")
-                the_dir = n[:-1]
+                n = itarinfo.name.rstrip("/")
+                assert "/" not in n
+                the_dir = n
             if itarinfo.isfile():
                 otarinfo.mode = 0644
             else: