Package: tar Version: 1.29-1 Hi Bdale, Carl,
Investigating a failing autopkgtest failure of libgtkada in Ubuntu led me to
the discovery that the 1.29-1 version of tar currently in testing and
unstable does not appear to be handling --exclude options compatibly with
previous versions. (Based on the disappearance of --exclude from the tar
manpage, I assumed this meant the option had been dropped completely and was
being silently ignored -- but I see it's still mentioned in the tar --help
output and is present in the source.)
The problematic tar invocation is:
tar --create --auto-compress --file=testgtk.tgz testgtk \
--exclude=testgtk/README --exclude=testgtk/obj/* \
--transform 's~^testgtk/opengl/view_gl\.ad~testgtk/view_gl.ad~' \
--exclude=testgtk/test_rtree --exclude=testgtk/testgtk \
--exclude=testgtk/testgtk.gpr debian/testgtk.gpr \
--transform 's/^debian/testgtk/'
Inspecting the resulting tarball shows that testgtk/README and testgtk/obj/*
are present (and probably the others too, but I haven't looked).
I've submitted a patch to libgtkada (bug #831001) to work around this, but
it seems rather unexpected for tar's behavior to have changed here.
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