Bug#375300: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-07-01 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Bdale Garbee wrote: >The following table summarizes pattern-matching default values: > >MembersDefault settings >-- >Inclusion `--no-wildcards --anchored >--no-w

Bug#375300: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-30 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:36:20AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:02:15AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > Debian still has to provide an upgrade path for users upgrading from > > > Sarge. > > > We cannot blindly break users scripts. > > > > Here, the only way seem

Bug#375300: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 10:36 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Here, the only way seems to be putting an entry in NEWS.Debian (for > > users script, ie things not under our control). Good idea, Christian. > In addition, I would suggest we reinstate the previous behaviour, but > display a warning w

Bug#375300: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:02:15AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Debian still has to provide an upgrade path for users upgrading from Sarge. > > We cannot blindly break users scripts. > > Here, the only way seems to be putting an entry in NEWS.Debian (for > users script, ie things not under

Bug#375300: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-27 Thread Christian Perrier
> Debian still has to provide an upgrade path for users upgrading from Sarge. > We cannot blindly break users scripts. Here, the only way seems to be putting an entry in NEWS.Debian (for users script, ie things not under our control). > We did something similar with "su" but we did it earlier in

Bug#375300: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-27 Thread allomber
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:22:12PM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: > > Since this seems to have been an intentional behavior change by > upstream to better align with a published standard, I'm uninclined to > fight it, and think our best response is to update our utilities to > include the --wildcards

Bug#375300: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-27 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 13:00 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > It's not so much packages already in the archive, it's every package > that is being prepared to be uploaded. > > Lintian *always* fails for all packages that I build on a system with > the updated tar. None of those packages failed prior t

Bug#375300: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-27 Thread Neil Williams
Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 10:02 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >> Le lun 26 juin 2006 21:53, Petr Vandrovec a écrit : >>> Maybe it could be default for tar's POSIX mode, but I have no idea >>> why GNU mode behavior should be changed in any way. >> I second that. it's now complet

Bug#375300: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-27 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 10:02 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le lun 26 juin 2006 21:53, Petr Vandrovec a écrit : > > Maybe it could be default for tar's POSIX mode, but I have no idea > > why GNU mode behavior should be changed in any way. > > I second that. it's now completely unpossible to do bas

Bug#375300: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-27 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le mar 27 juin 2006 13:37, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit : > On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 10:02 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Le lun 26 juin 2006 21:53, Petr Vandrovec a écrit : > > > Maybe it could be default for tar's POSIX mode, but I have no > > > idea why GNU mode behavior should be changed in any way.

Bug#375300: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-27 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le lun 26 juin 2006 21:53, Petr Vandrovec a écrit : > Maybe it could be default for tar's POSIX mode, but I have no idea > why GNU mode behavior should be changed in any way. I second that. it's now completely unpossible to do basic packaging work, because such a change wasn't planned. I also don

Bug#375300: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-26 Thread Petr Vandrovec
[I'm not on Debian-devel, so please CC me] Bdale Garbee wrote: The new tar behavior with respect to wildcards is not a change I introduced just for Debian, it's a new upstream change that appears to be quite intentional and well documented, as per this text from the tar info docs: The follow

Bug#375300: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
The new tar behavior with respect to wildcards is not a change I introduced just for Debian, it's a new upstream change that appears to be quite intentional and well documented, as per this text from the tar info docs: The following table summarizes pattern-matching default values: Members