On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 02:54:37PM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: > Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>> automake1.9 provides the facility to select the tar format to use (v7, > >>> posix, pax), and this works very well. However, the newer formats do > >>> require tar 1.14 in order to work. Due to the base freeze, sarge only > >>> has 1.13 available. > > It probably won't be possible to upgrade tar in base, but I think > > that's the only real solution for this [Bdale, is there any > > possibility of tar 1.14 for sarge?]. > Actually, Steve Langasek and I talked yesterday about the possibility of > promoting tar 1.14-2 into sarge for other reasons. Checking madison on merkel > shows that it hasn't happened yet, I'll CC him on this reply for comment. It should have happened today, but I screwed around with britney too much and it seems that doing this un-commits changes from testing (hmm, wish I'd figured that out earlier). tar 1.14-2 should go in (again) with tonight's britney run. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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