Hello Martin, or anyone else affected, Accepted tar into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tar/1.29b-2ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping! N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days. ** Changed in: tar (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: New => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to tar in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1809827 Title: --add-file broken in bionic Status in tar package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in tar source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Status in tar package in Fedora: Unknown Bug description: same error like this one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436030#c0 * Impact tar supplied in bionic has --add-file option broken. * Test case Steps to Reproduce: 1. echo >a.txt 2. echo >b.txt 3. tar cf a.tar a.txt 4. tar rf a.tar --add-file=b.txt Actual results: tar: unhandled positional option 0 * Regression potential The changes are around an option which isn't working so no much regression potential there, check that other options still work though Is likely fixed by this: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=3a283cfe9f8f1f127e8dc5597a5ea1d249985a54 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tar/+bug/1809827/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
