Excerpts from Jason Gerard DeRose's message of 2014-05-08 16:45:23 UTC:
> Stéphane,
> 
> Gotcha, thanks for the feedback! So am I correct in thinking that the
> --xattrs option is currently broken in tar on 14.04? If so, is there any
> chance this could be fixed in an SRU?
> 

No, --xattrs works fine in 14.04. The problem is that it must be used.
Note that you also have to use --xattrs-include=* while creating the
tar to make use of it (which is, IMO, a bug, as if I said --xattrs,
I meant _USE XATTRS_. ;)

Anyway, another problem is that 12.04 tar does not support it, so the
tarball images are not consumable from the previous release, which is a
problem for a shop trying to upgrade. I think that may be a worthy SRU,
as tars with xattrs will start to become more and more commonplace over
the next 3 years that 12.04 is still a supported platform.

Certainly somebody should get 14.04's tar into precise-backports while
this SRU is debated.

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