Re: Incorrect information in the manual about the tar-v7 option

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2008-09-17 22:45:15 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Vincent Lefevre wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:09:43PM CEST:
> > Shouldn't tar-ustar be the default instead of tar-v7?
> 
> I'm not an expert on tar implementations and their issues,
> and what would be a good default nowadays.
> 
> Help?  I Cc:ed a couple of people knowledgeable about tar history,
> and the automake list.  The question how far autotools should cater
> to limitations of new and open source software like BusyBox is quite
> a difficult one to answer in general, to me.  Should autotools add even
> more workarounds, or should rather simply BusyBox be fixed?  Do added
> workarounds here remove the incentive to fix the buggy software there?

I'd say that old, limited, non-standard formats are likely to be less
tested than current ones, thus they are more likely to have problems
with new tools.

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