[Bug-tar] 1.30: test numeric.at still broken on BSD

The numeric.at test is broken on filesystems with BSD group semantics. I already reported this for 1.29 and this fix was suggested: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2016-06/txt9bP0DVvYnu.txt Alas, it hasn't found its way into 1.30. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber

[Bug-tar] 1.30: info files are always rebuilt

There is a small distribution issue with GNU tar 1.30. Since doc/version.texi is out of date with respect to doc/stamp-vti, the *.info files are always rebuilt from the *.texi sources. This obviously fails is makeinfo is not available or too old. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber

Re: [Bug-tar] tar-1.30 released [stable]

Pavel Raiskup wrote: > Has ./configure detected the ACL support? > > ... > checking for library containing acl_get_file... -lacl This is an interface from a standard proposal that has been withdrawn in 1997. I believe at the time this proposal has been withdrawn, there was no existing implementa