Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> writes: > On 08/18/2014 01:49 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Joey took various approaches to work around this, including shipping >> some of the older versions of the compressors in the package. However, >> the issue also applies to tar, and so far has been addressed by >> modifying tar to add a backword-compatibility mode. > And if upstream uses tar from BSD, game over... No, I'm pretty sure that currently works. But I don't know how much that relies on modifications to Debian's tar package. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87oavhzrvl....@hope.eyrie.org