As ludicrous as it sounds, looks like the issue is related to the infamous Win CR/LF.
I agreed with the Debian maintainer to remove any sed black magic from the original source tarball building rules, so I did a
svn export svn://dspnet.fr/mame/tags/mame0152 mame-0.152
Do you reckon it would be sound to make this the ultimate source tarball building rule instead of mangling the mame052s.exe archive?

Thanks in advance!
