Simon Josefsson wrote: > Possibly automake can move > from v7 to ustar. Adding this to gnulib now allows us to gain > experience with it.
I have already experience with it: Since 2018, all tarballs of GNU gettext were made with --format=ustar. I have tested them on all possible platforms, from HP-UX 11 to IRIX 6.5, from AIX 7 to NetBSD, and not encountered a problem — nor received a complaint or bug report because of it. So, from my point of view, we can ask the Automake team to adopt --format=ustar now. Bruno
