Your message dated Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:13:25 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#174308: star should become standard tar has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 26 Dec 2002 00:23:04 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Dec 25 18:23:02 2002 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from lisa.js.jura.uni-goettingen.de (lisa.goe.net) [134.76.166.209] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 18RLnh-0000lA-00; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 18:23:01 -0600 Received: from lisa.goe.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lisa.goe.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBQ0Mxdd006040 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 01:22:59 +0100 Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by lisa.goe.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBQ0MxTd006039 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 01:22:59 +0100 Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 01:22:59 +0100 From: Bjoern Jacke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: star should become standard tar Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Chromosom: Macht verrueckt, was euch verrueckt macht! X-Message-Flag: You use the wrong OS, boot to the head. X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.19rc4 i586 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.6 required=5.0 tests=SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.41 X-Spam-Level: Package: general star (http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html) should become the standard tar on Debian. GNU tar has lots of known bugs and it's just ugly. No one is able to maintain GNU tar right because it's an ugly hack, not beiing POSIX compliant and not even generating correct tar archives by default. star does all this better and has ACL support additionally ... --------------------------------------- Received: (at 174308-done) by bugs.debian.org; 25 Apr 2003 13:13:38 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Apr 25 08:13:37 2003 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from lisa.js.jura.uni-goettingen.de (lisa.goe.net) [134.76.166.209] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 199317-0004C3-00; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:13:29 -0500 Received: from lisa.goe.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lisa.goe.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h3PDDPAE027150 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:13:25 +0200 Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by lisa.goe.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h3PDDPYZ027149 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:13:25 +0200 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:13:25 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#174308: star should become standard tar Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Chromosom: Macht verrueckt, was euch verrueckt macht! X-Message-Flag: You use the wrong OS, boot to the head. X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.20-4GB i586 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-13.1 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_01,IN_REP_TO,NO_REAL_NAME,REFERENCES,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.53 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) I will close this bug because it seems to be a bad idea to use star as default. It has some strange implementation ideas and an upstream maintainer who isn't realy interested in making it work in a usable way on GNU systems but who mainly cares about solaris and *bsd.