Hi Daniel, I'm afraid I completely disagree with your recent changes. This isn't a wishlist bug; it's causing build failures. I want to have star(1) installed for the times I want star instead of tar, but in doing so I have ./configure scripts looking for GNU tar use it in preference to the real GNU tar because it lies and installs /bin/gnutar, this in turn causes later build problems; see mannheim's comment about `make package' failing in Firefox.
Neither is the solution to "clarify/document that star (which installs gnutar) is not GNU tar". Users know star isn't GNU tar when they install it. What they don't know is it also installs /bin/gnutar which isn't really GNU tar but ./configure won't be able to tell. The solution is to stop star lying and have it install gnu*s*tar instead, that is star with a GNU interface. And also to alter gnutar/gnustar's man page to make clear it's documenting star's emulation of GNU tar with star's extensions. -- Please clarify/document that star (which installs gnutar) is not GNU tar https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1828 You received this bug notification because you are a member of MOTU, which is a bug assignee. -- universe-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs
