On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 15:31 +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > It is also bound to break numerous private scripts on peoples systems. > And for no good reason, the default has been like this for years now, > why change that? For the POSIX-pedantic people there is always the POSIX > mode. In that case just reverting the Debian change isn't the right way. If you think that the change is wrong, then you should make upstream fix it: changing behaviour of tar is one thing, but having different behaviour of a basic tool like tar on different distros is very undesirable. Thijs
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