Re: [Bug-tar] ACL support in git version of GNU tar

[Pavel Raiskup]

> I'd like to remember of the following bug report and to announce that I
> have finished patches for all these issues.

Marcus, thanks for looking at this problem.  I think fixes for
ACLs/capabilities are really important, though I have not looked at your
code yet.

> I have submitted my patches to redhat (as they currently apply clean on
> a redhat patched tar 1.27.1). See
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1052876 for them.
>
> If you are ready to accept that patches (and only then, currently I have
> quite limited time) I would rebase the patches to tar master.

Still, even as a Fedora/RHEL (co)maintainer I would prefer making the
patches pass against GNU git master.  It makes things more easy for GNU
tar upstream and it is not problem for me to backport such patches to
Fedora.

> I also want to remind of
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2013-04/msg00024.html: where
> "Paul Eggert" writes "That sort of thing all sounds reasonable, I guess.
> I'd like Sergey's opinion though.". What is your opinion to this, Sergey?

But not that this plays important role also for Fedora inclusion — we
should really meet the upstream quality of backported patches.  So I don't
think that the patch review should be done on Fedora side.  I can help
with reviewing if that will be needed..  But yes, we need to know upstream
POV.

Pavel