Re: [Bug-tar] GNUTYPE_NAMES dangerous

[Paul Eggert]

>> Also, I'd be inclined to generate a new official release soon.  Shall we
>> just increment the version number (to 1.16.1, say?) and ship CVS head?
>
> Yes, these are minor changes so 1.16.1 is OK.  I will need a week or so
> to flush my local changes.  In the meantime, I have installed the
> following patch:

OK, thanks.

Sorry, I didn't understand your suggestion.  Would you prefer that
I cut 1.16.1 now, or do you think it's better to wait until after
you flush your local changes?

> +Notice, that when speaking about ``excluding the directory'' we mean
> +that the files and subdirectories it contains will not get into the
> +archive, while the entry for the directory itself will

Is that actually the preferred semantics?  I would have thought that
people would want the directory entry itself to be absent.  (But I
don't know the context.)