> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384508
> > tar: -l option changed meaning, without any warning!

I've been on this list for only a few hours, and it has already solved
a baffling and annoying mystery for me.  I have been using tar for at
least 20 years and I would never have expected something this
important to change so radically and so silently.  My scripts haven't
complained; they've just started producing files that are *almost*
right.  Ugh.

Well, it just goes to show you: even though our friends in Gnu-land
focus relentlessly on protecting productivity, they are not perfect.
It's comforting, kind-of.

-- Steve

Steven R. Newcomb, Consultant
Coolheads Consulting

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