According to http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tar.html
tar 1.20-1 entered unstable on 2008-04-17, so several months before the freeze. And http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=tar gives no good reasons for which tar is not in testing yet: * trying to update tar from 1.19-3 to 1.20-1 (candidate is 109 days old) * tar is in freeze; contact debian-release if update is needed The first point isn't a reason at all. Concerning the second point, tar 1.20-1 should have entered testing before the freeze. If I understand correctly[*], tar 1.20-1 has been installed on every arch since 2008-05-19. [*] http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=tar tar 1.20-1 contains an important addition: lzma support. And developers are starting to use lzma-compressed tarballs instead of bzip2 (see e.g. texinfo). Though there are workarounds, they have drawbacks, and it would be quite annoying to have an obsolete version of tar in lenny. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
