tar-1.11.8-3

[Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>]

This release fixes the problem with specifying a null username when a remote
tape is specified to the 'f' argument.  Previously, unless the fully qualified
form of

	user@host:/dev/tapename

was used, a segmentation violation and core dump would result before anything
else happened.  It turns out that a null pointer was being dereferenced when
the username was not specified.  With this release, the user defaults to the
current user, so the form

	host:/dev/tapename

works fine.  There were several essentially duplicate bug reports that this
release allows me to close.

I've made contact with the upstream maintainer, and his changelogs indicate
that I may be able to close some other open Debian tar bugs once I get a fresh
code snapshot to work from.  We'll see.

Bdale


Date: 27 Dec 95 07:46 UT
Source: tar
Binary: tar 
Version: 1.11.8-3
Description: 
 tar: GNU tar.
Priority: Low
Changes: fix problem with null username in remote tape path specification
Files:
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