Re: new tar behavior and --wildcards
- To: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
- Cc: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>, Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>, 375300@bugs.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Michael Biebl <biebl@teco.edu>, Chris Hanson <cph@debian.org>, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@v7w.com>, Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: new tar behavior and --wildcards
- From: Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:36:20 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:02:15AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Debian still has to provide an upgrade path for users upgrading from Sarge.
> > We cannot blindly break users scripts.
>
> Here, the only way seems to be putting an entry in NEWS.Debian (for
> users script, ie things not under our control).
In addition, I would suggest we reinstate the previous behaviour, but
display a warning when wildcards are used but --wildcards is not set.
The warning would tell people about the migration and explains they must
fix their scripts to use --wildcards before upgrading to etch+1.
This way it is easy to find problematic scripts.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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