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Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
tags 302682 sarge wontfix
thanks
> * Roger Leigh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> automake1.9 provides the facility to select the tar format to use (v7,
>> posix, pax), and this works very well. However, the newer formats do
>> require tar 1.14 in order to work. Due to the base freeze, sarge only
>> has 1.13 available.
>>
>> Although tar is in base, adding a versioned dependency would prevent
>> breakage ("make dist" failing or producing broken archives). This is
>> probably too late for sarge, and won't be a problem for etch, so
>> doing nothing might also work.
>
> I'm not sure what you want me to do here. I can't depend on tar 1.14
> since it's not available as you say. And automake1.9 works with 1.13,
> so dependency is not the right relationship. I could put a recommends
> for tar >= 1.14, but that's not all that useful at this point either.
I don't think there's much that can be done. I've tagged it as "sarge
wontfix", so it should be visible as an erratum for sarge for others
who run into this limitation.
There's another problem here as well: sarge users won't be able to
unpack archives created by sid users with tar-pax or tar-posix (or at
the least will get screeds of warnings). This is probably going to be
the most annoying problem for users of automake, since only v7 will
work, but this is not suitable for many projects (anything using
Doxygen, for example, exceeds the filename length limit comfortably).
It probably won't be possible to upgrade tar in base, but I think
that's the only real solution for this [Bdale, is there any
possibility of tar 1.14 for sarge?].
Thanks,
Roger
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