severity 1028970 wishlist tag 1028970 wontfix thanks Marco, tar doesn't document a standard for stderr. In particular, this looks like a legit warning in either case. Please bring this up with the software that is broken by it.
On Sun, 15 Jan 2023, 16:51 Marco d'Itri, <m...@linux.it> wrote: > Package: tar > Version: 1.34+dfsg-1.1 > Severity: important > > Emitting these warnings to stderr is bad because it breaks other > software which calls tar and does not expect something on stderr. > Either the warnings are useless, and then they should just be > suppressed, or they are relevant, and then tar should be taught about > whatever a "LIBARCHIVE.xattr.com.apple.lastuseddate" is. > > To reproduce: > > $ wget > https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/M/MR/MRSCOTTY/Crypt-X509-0.55.tar.gz > $ LANG=C tar tvvf Crypt-X509-0.55.tar.gz > /dev/null > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword > 'LIBARCHIVE.xattr.com.apple.lastuseddate#PS' > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword > 'LIBARCHIVE.xattr.com.apple.lastuseddate#PS' > $ > > -- > ciao, > Marco >
