Paul Yeatman wrote:
> ->>In response to your message<<-
>   --received from Jean-Louis Martineau--
>>
>>> I have been seeing the same thing for about two weeks.
>>>
[snip]
> This is all with Debian Etch.
> 
> Now I'm experiencing similar problems again as explained in this thread
> but with Fedora 5 boxes.
> 
> I find it a bit bothersome that not just one but two linux
> distributions are releasing packages of incompatible versions of tar
> and amanda.  I suppose this is reasonable considering the complexity of
> the issue and that both are progressive versions of the distributions?


It may be a Good Idea to make certain that this issue is brought to the
attention of the Debian package maintainer for amanda, hence the CC to
Bdale Garbee.

If this *isn't* fixed before Etch freezes (some time in December?) its
unlikely that it will *ever* be fixed (since its not a security issue)
and will remain broken until the next release of Debian.

Thanks!