Package: tar Version: 1.34+dfsg-1 Severity: important tar doesn't restore all directory timestamps from the extracted archive.
Example with tar -xaf /usr/src/linux-source-5.10.tar.xz There are 4712 directories, but 118 of them have a recent timestamp. zira% find linux-source-5.10 -type d | wc -l 4712 zira% find linux-source-5.10 -mtime -1 | wc -l 118 zira% find linux-source-5.10 -mtime -1 -type d | wc -l 118 e.g. zira% ls -ld linux-source-5.10/drivers/dma/dw drwxr-xr-x 2 vinc17 vinc17 4096 2021-07-19 15:45:29 linux-source-5.10/drivers/dma/dw (though this directory is present in the archive). -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages tar depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.53-10 ii libc6 2.31-13 ii libselinux1 3.1-3 tar recommends no packages. Versions of packages tar suggests: ii bzip2 1.0.8-4 pn ncompress <none> pn tar-doc <none> pn tar-scripts <none> ii xz-utils 5.2.5-2 -- no debconf information -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
