Hi, newer tar (1.27.1)has a serious regression compared to 1.27.
Could you post a patch here ? Thank you ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bast...@gmail.com> Date: 2014-02-26 21:55 GMT+01:00 Subject: [regression] tar mess up \ and \\ files To: sub...@bugs.debian.org Package: tar Version: 1.27.1-1 Severity: serious Serious because it is a regression and it break at least lintian... strange name is a tar regression: bastien@bastien-debian:/tmp/testcase$ ls '\ \ \\ bastien@bastien-debian:/tmp/testcase$ tar -cf test.tar * bastien@bastien-debian:/tmp/testcase$ tar -tf test.tar '\\ \\ \\ bastien@bastien-debian:/tmp/testcase$ mkdir extract bastien@bastien-debian:/tmp/testcase$ cd extract/ bastien@bastien-debian:/tmp/testcase/extract$ tar -xf ../test.tar bastien@bastien-debian:/tmp/testcase/extract$ ls '\ \ bastien@bastien-debian:/tmp/testcase/extract$ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.27.1 Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Licence GPLv3+ : GNU GPL version 3 ou ultérieure <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> Ceci est un logiciel libre : vous êtes libre de le modifier et de le redistribuer. Il est fourni SANS GARANTIE, dans la mesure de ce que permet la loi. Écrit par John Gilmore et Jay Fenlason.
