Re: tar maintainence

[Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>]

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According to Christopher Faylor on 8/13/2005 2:35 PM:
> Sure, please take tar.  I noticed the autodetection of the compressed
> files on one of my linux boxes.  I've had a new version sitting in my
> sandbox for a while but I haven't taken the time to see if I got
> everything right as far as binmode/textmode goes.  I've been carrying a
> few patches around that I've been remiss in submitting upstream since I
> anticipated pushback.

The tar testsuite completed without error with a second tweak (the 1.15.1
tarball is missing a couple of testsuite files that I had to copy from
CVS), but I have not done any binmode/textmode testing.  And your
packaging of 1.13.25 was pretty sparse on patch documentation; it looks
like I will have to manually diff /usr/src/tar-1.13.25-7 with the original
tar-1.13.25 tarball (if I can find it online) to see what patches you had
made, unless you want to send your patches to me directly.

> 
> I don't suppose that you want findutils, too?

Sure, why not.  findutils-4.2.25 is due in the next couple of weeks, and
includes a new feature of regex flavor specification (ie. you aren't
locked in to emacs regex flavor).

It may be a few days before the actual ITP appears - there always seems to
be some surprise when adapting new packages to the g-b-s, even when they
build just fine from the tarball.

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Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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