Re: [Bug-tar] Reproducible archives with --posix (Re: --xattrs makes archives unreproducible)

[Paul Eggert]

Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> While
> this change is really worth doing, should not we rather first try to
> change (relax) the pax specs [1]?

The best way to change the pax specs is to do the right thing, and then argue 
for the change in front of the POSIX committee.  Historically that's what the 
GNU project has done.  Sometimes this is successful, sometimes not.  But a 
working implementation is the best argument.

Obviously we should continue to conform to POSIX if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.