Package: bsdtar Version: 2.8.4-1 Severity: normal Currently bsdtar allways create archives which includes all information about file, including extended attributes.
It is possible to ignore this information on extraction. But there should be possible to ignore this information also on cration, for example when we are creating archive not for archiving purpose, but for somebody else (for example distributing our source codes). Extended attributes could contain some sensitive private data, which can be even created automatically (consider beagle, or backup metadata, or metadata used by version control system, ecryptfs keys, etc). Simples way is to have new option, --disable-xattr which will just skip xattr reading (and so will not write any to archive). In future, it could be extended to only include xattrs which match/not-match a given regexp. It could be also used then so tar will also use xattr to retrive/store which file to archive or was archived (and when, and into what file). For example according to http://freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonExtendedAttributes: user.xdg.robots.backup: On a file: "true" to index, "false" to not backup. On a directory: "true" to traverse the into the directory for backup, "false" for not traversing into it.''' But disableing on demand for now would be most usefull. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to pl_PL.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages bsdtar depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.49-3 Access control list shared library ii libarchive1 2.8.4-1 Single library to read/write tar, ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii liblzma2 4.999.9beta+20100713-1 XZ-format compression library ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime bsdtar recommends no packages. Versions of packages bsdtar suggests: pn bsdcpio <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
