This bug was fixed in the package tar - 1.23-2ubuntu1
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tar (1.23-2ubuntu1) maverick-proposed; urgency=low
* src/create.c, src/common.h, src/tar.c: Revert patch introduced in 2004
to fix a dpkg bug long since worked around. The patch caused Debian's
tar to produce archives with longname headers for files with names
longer than 99 characters, instead of 100 per POSIX. Also backport a
hack to re-enable this broken behaviour when the TAR_LONGLINK_100
environment variable is set. Without these changes, pristine-tar (at
least) can produce broken tarballs when tarballs committed on systems
with tar >= 1.23-4 are recreated on systems with tar < 1.23-4 and
pristine-tar < 1.11. References: Debian bug #598345, #603231,
#602907. LP: #696480.
-- Iain Lane <la...@ubuntu.com> Sat, 08 Jan 2011 13:34:10 +0100
** Changed in: tar (Ubuntu Maverick)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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Title:
Natty and Maverick's tar versions generate different tarballs in some
cases (when path length is 100 characters)
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