On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 06:50:35PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > The tar version introducing those options was 1.23, present in > > squeeze. So it seems you are trying to upgrade a system with packages > > still from lenny to a mix of squeeze and sid? > > This is generally not supported, but I also agree this outcome is not > > desirable either, I'll probably add a versioned Pre-Depends on the > > required tar, after running it through debian-devel. > So cc-ing debian-devel with this mail. Does anyone have an objection > against dpkg adding this "tar (>= 1.23)" pre-dependency? > For reference it's the fix for #640298 that added the --warning=no-timestamp > option. FWIW, the previous Ubuntu LTS release included tar 1.22, so using a pre-dependency in Debian probably means Ubuntu will have to carry a delta for this for 12.04. A solution that works for both Debian and Ubuntu would be welcome. I don't see any reason that this pre-dependency would be a problem for Debian itself given that the required version of tar is in squeeze. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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