This release fixes the problem with specifying a null username when a remote
tape is specified to the 'f' argument. Previously, unless the fully qualified
form of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/tapename
was used, a segmentation violation and core dump would result before anything
else happened. It turns out that a null pointer was being dereferenced when
the username was not specified. With this release, the user defaults to the
current user, so the form
host:/dev/tapename
works fine. There were several essentially duplicate bug reports that this
release allows me to close.
I've made contact with the upstream maintainer, and his changelogs indicate
that I may be able to close some other open Debian tar bugs once I get a fresh
code snapshot to work from. We'll see.
Bdale
Date: 27 Dec 95 07:46 UT
Source: tar
Binary: tar
Version: 1.11.8-3
Description:
tar: GNU tar.
Priority: Low
Changes: fix problem with null username in remote tape path specification
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bdale 688876 Dec 27 00:41 tar-1.11.8-3.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bdale bdale 2850 Dec 27 00:42 tar-1.11.8-3.diff.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bdale 144332 Dec 27 00:40 tar-1.11.8-3.deb
cce6ed804da368246270903bce6174dd tar-1.11.8-3.tar.gz
0bac95ca8e4fc91be3b043825739f46e tar-1.11.8-3.diff.gz
12e9daa8f03172b6bc6af7686c98e8a1 tar-1.11.8-3.deb
