Package: tar Version: 1.23-3 Severity: important I have done a bash script to shows the bug:
#!/bin/sh dirtest=tartest if [ -d "$dirtest" ]; then echo please delete the folder $dirtest or change the variable dirtest in this script. exit 1 fi # create dir1/file1 mkdir -p "$dirtest/dir1" touch "$dirtest/dir1/file1" # create dir2/file1 mkdir "$dirtest/dir2" touch "$dirtest/dir2/file1" # incrememental 0 tar cz -g "$dirtest"0 -f "$dirtest"0.tgz "$dirtest" # delete of dir1 rm -rf "$dirtest/dir1" # move of dir2 in dir1 mv "$dirtest/dir2" "$dirtest/dir1" # incremental 1 cp "$dirtest"0 "$dirtest"1 tar cz -g "$dirtest"1 -f "$dirtest"1.tgz "$dirtest" # remove of dirtest rm -rf "$dirtest" # restore from tar tar xz -g /dev/null -f "$dirtest"0.tgz tar xz -g /dev/null -f "$dirtest"1.tgz -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages tar depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib tar recommends no packages. Versions of packages tar suggests: ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co pn ncompress <none> (no description available) ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org