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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1809827

Title:
  --add-file broken in bionic

Status in tar package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in tar source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in tar package in Fedora:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  same error like this one:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436030#c0

  * Impact
  tar supplied in bionic has --add-file option broken.

  * Test case
  Steps to Reproduce:
  1. echo >a.txt
  2. echo >b.txt
  3. tar cf a.tar a.txt
  4. tar rf a.tar --add-file=b.txt

  Actual results:
  tar: unhandled positional option 0

  * Regression potential
  The changes are around an option which isn't working so no much regression 
potential there, check that other options still work though

  
  Is likely fixed by this:
  
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=3a283cfe9f8f1f127e8dc5597a5ea1d249985a54

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