> > Of course the -I option to tar was completely non-standard. The changelog > > explains why it changed, to be consistant with Solaris tar. I'd prefer > > portability and consistancy any day, it shouldn't take that long to change > > any custom scripts you have. I always use long options for nonstandard > > commands when building scripts anyway :) > I think it would be best for *our* tar to move bzip to -j and *not have > a -I at all*.
Or alias -I to -j, but print a warning to stderr: tar: warning: Using the -I option for bzip compression is an obsolete functionality and it will removed in future versions of tar, Then, in the woody+1 we make -I work as upstream tar does now.
