On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Steve Wray wrote:
> 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.

tar 1.16 has just entered Debian sid/unstable. It's supposed to fix the
problems with incrementals, but I haven't tried it yet.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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