I was told that this bug has already been fixed in GNU tar: commit b60e56fd
http://www.ohloh.net/p/tar/commits/70461246 Now it has to make its way into the Debian packages, hopefully ASAP. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org