On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 10:23 PM John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote: > However, if the longer names are now short enough, would it be better to > also revert 9ffa67f4da7766dddfd3d610fba7693cba24d2bc ? > > Using a particular tar format, does have the disadvantage that it cannot > be untarred by older versions of tar.
The Automake manual claims that tar-ustar is widely supported, so I don't think there's much advantage to reverting it. The problem it works around could come up again later, especially if a version number gets longer. See https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/List-of-Automake-options.html for the page of the manual that talks about this.
