From b05605cc1c1fc62b337aa0b82dd34ee5f0fe0332 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:19:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] gh-151669: Normalize symlink targets in
 tarfile.TarFile.gettarinfo()

This applies a normalization complementary to the one added to
tarfile.TarFile.extract() in gh-138309.
---
 Lib/tarfile.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index a293a0492472749..90e3443a98d50f1 100644
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -2227,7 +2227,7 @@ def gettarinfo(self, name=None, arcname=None, fileobj=None):
             type = FIFOTYPE
         elif stat.S_ISLNK(stmd):
             type = SYMTYPE
-            linkname = os.readlink(name)
+            linkname = os.readlink(name).replace(os.sep, "/")
         elif stat.S_ISCHR(stmd):
             type = CHRTYPE
         elif stat.S_ISBLK(stmd):