[Bug 1809827] Re: --add-file broken in bionic

[Martin Vogt]

** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #1436030
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436030

** Also affects: tar (Fedora) via
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436030
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Title:
  --add-file broken in bionic

Status in tar package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in tar package in Fedora:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  same error like this one:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436030#c0

  Description of problem:
  tar supplied in bionic has --add-file option broken.

  Version-Release number of selected component:
  tar-1.29b-2_amd64

  Reproducible: Always

  Steps to Reproduce:
  1. echo >a.txt
  2. echo >b.txt
  3. tar cf a.tar a.txt
  4. tar rf a.tar --add-file=b.txt

  Actual results:
  tar: unhandled positional option 0

  Is likely fixed by this:
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=3a283cfe9f8f1f127e8dc5597a5ea1d249985a54

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