> TLDR; libarchive has feature parity with NetBSD pax. i don't know how you can make this claim. are you simply ignoring that others have a problem you haven't seen?
people's upgrades are breaking now in ways they never have before. that's not feature parity by a long shot. instead of ignoring the real issues, perhaps you could argue that bsdtar should actually match the features of pax-as-tar, and then we can all benefit from the change. i'm not happy about this change. i wish that bsdtar was fixed to not be unfriendly, because it mostly is a better implementation. just these edge cases are rather .. problematic yet these issues are being ignored or rejected as being irrelevant. we can do better. i like christos' patch. there's some nuance with the symlink vs security issue, but there is only clear additional failure cases with the unlink vs rename issue. .mrg.
