Makepkg and incorrect file extension of the source archive

Hi,
I want to create a PKGBUILD for a program distributed as a .tar.gz source archive, except that it's really a .tar archive.
Thus, makepkg fails because it uses the wrong tar option.
Now I'm wondering what the best way is to deal with this situation. I just tried placing a "mv foo.tar.gz foo.tar" line before the build() function, but that didn't get executed. Inside build() would be too late, because makepkg runs it after extracting.
I'm not looking for a solution on how to install it -- I can just manually download and rename the file, then edit the PKGBUILD accordingly. But the PKGBUILD resp. makepkg should cope with that, not the user by manually downloading/renaming things. So I'm looking for a way how to do that from inside that file.
Guess I should do a feature request: makepkg should detect the archive file correctly (e.g. using "file"), not just by looking at the extension which could be wrong.

tomk wrote:
Best solution in the long term is, of course, to ask the developers to correct their mistake.
In the meantime, although it's not ideal, there is no problem with running tar xf inside the build() function.
the problem is, he can't. Makepkg barfs when it cant untarball it.
In the meantime, download the source, and untar it in the build() function.
Also file a bug, maybe makepkg should use some 'file' (man file) magic to determine what it is.
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