Re: [Bug-tar] need help with tar output stability problem

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/10/2010 10:14 PM, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:59:03 -0800, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
>> This file name is exactly 100 bytes long, and if I recall, that used
>> to be a problem area in GNU tar.  The 1.24 tarball contains a longlink
>> representation of the file (which isn't right), whereas the 1.23 tarball
>> is right.
> 
> Ugh.  Smoking gun.  I was carrying a patch around for ages to try and
> work around this bug, which tripped a bug in dpkg for a while.  Finally
> realized it was no longer needed and removed it from my build of 1.24.

Ah, sorry, I'm a bit confused.  Is your theory that this age-old patch broke 
1.24?
If so, we don't need to do anything upstream.  If not, then please let us
know (for example, what patch is it, and what test case illustrates the
need for the patch).