Hi Paul, > This can happen if one generates two tarballs, one > with the default gnu format or the use tar format (both of which lack > subsecond resolution) and the other with posix format (which has > subseconds).
That's exactly what I pointed out in my previous posting. But, according to Piotr: > Additionaly both archives can't be in different formats because > diffoscope would show us this difference in headers. As an afterthought, this is not necessarily so, because POSIX format with all extended headers removed, is indistinguishable from ustar. Regards, Sergey
