Package: coreutils Version: 5.97-5.3 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss
Running 'tar -r -W -f archive.tar anotherArchive.tar' causes only the contents of anotherArchive to be visible, thus rendering whatever was in the archive prior to 'appending' anotherArchive.tar to be unreachable by means of the tar utility. Run the attached script to replicate the problem for yourselves. Note: I tracked the problem down far enough to figure out that the '-W' option is causing this problem to occur. This happens with both the '-r' and the '-A' options. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.42-1 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.5-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.15-2 SELinux shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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