Hi Peter! Thanks for forwarding the bug.
* Peter Pentchev <[email protected]>, 2016-07-09, 02:29:
in the worst case we may decide to carry this as a Debian-specific patch for the benefit of compatibility with GNU tar, but, to be honest, I see a couple of potential drawbacks with this approach, too; some might even mumble something about "gratuitous differences in behavior"
Yeah, let's not go this way. -- Jakub Wilk

