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Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories



Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> writes:
> On 08/18/2014 01:49 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Joey took various approaches to work around this, including shipping
>> some of the older versions of the compressors in the package.  However,
>> the issue also applies to tar, and so far has been addressed by
>> modifying tar to add a backword-compatibility mode.

> And if upstream uses tar from BSD, game over...

No, I'm pretty sure that currently works.  But I don't know how much that
relies on modifications to Debian's tar package.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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