Bug#973844: RFA: tar

2020-11-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
Janos LENART writes: > I would like to adopt & maintain tar. I am using some of the 'newer' > features at many sites that the current bugs are about, like remote > archives, zstd and incremental; also well versed in C. I have been a DD > since 2000. > > Looking at the list of bugs I am thinking

Bug#973844: RFA: tar

2020-11-06 Thread Janos LENART
Hi Bdale, Thanks for looking after tar for 25 years :-O I would like to adopt & maintain tar. I am using some of the 'newer' features at many sites that the current bugs are about, like remote archives, zstd and incremental; also well versed in C. I have been a DD since 2000. Looking at the

Bug#973844: RFA: tar -- GNU version of the tar archiving utility

2020-11-05 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: wnpp After maintaining the Debian package of tar since 3 December 1995 (nearly a quarter century!), I've decided it's time to let someone else take over. The Debian tar package is generally in very good shape, and does all the routine things quite reliably. However, like many GNU