> Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 12:07:14 -0500 > From: Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I certainly hope that the debian version at least prevents serious > silent breakage by either reverting the change to -I and printing a > message that the option is deprecated or removing the -I flag > entirely. Why would deprecating or removing the -I flag help prevent serious silent breakage? I would think that most people using -I in the 1.13.17 sense would use it like this: tar -xIf archive.tar and this silently breaks in 1.13.18 only in the unlikely case where "f" is a readable tar file. I'm not entirely opposed to deprecating -I for a while -- but I want to know why it's helpful to do this before installing such a change.
