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Re: tar -I incompatibility



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Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote on Sat Jan 06, 2001 um 05:35:55PM:

>  Or alias -I to -j, but print a warning to stderr:
> 
> tar: warning: Using the -I option for bzip compression is an obsolete
> functionality and it will removed in future versions of tar,
> 
>  Then, in the woody+1 we make -I work as upstream tar does now.
 
IMHO we should do it this way, but arrange with tar maintainers in other
distributions first. So Debian should not use this as the only
distribution while all others follows the upstream.

Gr{us,eeting}s,
Eduard.
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