Unblocking package tar

[Laurent Bonnaud <Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr>]

Dear release managers,

the tar package in squeeze currently suffers from a very annoying bug
that prevents using tar to create backups on another machine, see:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=587702
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597672

This bug has been fixed in the latest version of tar that is currently
in sid:

http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/t/tar/current/changelog

and that has been uploaded with priority "medium" for this reason.

According to http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tar.html only the freeze
prevents tar from being updated in squeeze.  So could you please grant a
freeze exception for this package ?

-- 
Laurent Bonnaud.
http://www.lis.inpg.fr/pages_perso/bonnaud/