Re: Debian unstable tar incompatible with 1.13.x?

2001-01-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt 
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 06:16:54AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
 To summarize what has been happening in debian-devel, 
 
 The maintainer of tar has decided he wants to change the meaning of

Please be careful with your wording -- the upstream author has
made this change, not the debian maintainer.


Hamish
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Debian unstable tar incompatible with 1.13.x?

2001-01-08 Thread safemode 
I have used tar with gzip and bzip2 in debian unstable and in each case
users who use older versions of tar ( like 1.13.11 ) were unable to
decompress it.

[49: huff+mtf rt+rld]data integrity (CRC) error in data


and such error messages like that .  This troubles me greatly.  Any info
about this?I'm using debian unstable's current tar and bzip2 and
gzip  to make the tarballs.

Re: Debian unstable tar incompatible with 1.13.x?

2001-01-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa 
In Mon, 08 Jan 2001 15:21:30 -0500 safemode [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate 
scripsit :


 I have used tar with gzip and bzip2 in debian unstable and in each case
 users who use older versions of tar ( like 1.13.11 ) were unable to
 decompress it.
 
 [49: huff+mtf rt+rld]data integrity (CRC) error in data
 
 
 and such error messages like that .  This troubles me greatly.  Any info
 about this?I'm using debian unstable's current tar and bzip2 and
 gzip  to make the tarballs.

To summarize what has been happening in debian-devel, 

The maintainer of tar has decided he wants to change the meaning of
the option -I, the reasoning being that because it is an unstable 
version of tar, the developer can do anything he wishes.

One problem is that the stable version of Debian (potato) included
an unstable version of tar.


The only action taken so far is to update the documentation to reflect
the change of I to j


regards,
junichi

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Re: Debian unstable tar incompatible with 1.13.x?

2001-01-08 Thread Goswin Brederlow 
   == safemode  [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  I have used tar with gzip and bzip2 in debian unstable and in
  each case users who use older versions of tar ( like 1.13.11 )
  were unable to decompress it.

Well, bzip2 is known. Just doesn't work anymore (see the big flameware
here :)

  [49: huff+mtf rt+rld]data integrity (CRC) error in data

Thats strange. Do you have a small example as tar and tar.gz file?
Best would be the same data once with the old and once with the new
tar.

  and such error messages like that .  This troubles me greatly.
  Any info about this?  I'm using debian unstable's current tar
  and bzip2 and gzip to make the tarballs.

MfG
Goswin