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

[Brian Murray]

Hello Martin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tar into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tar/1.29b-2ubuntu0.1
in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from
verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of
your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Changed in: tar (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic

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Title:
  --add-file broken in bionic

Status in tar package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in tar source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in tar package in Fedora:
  Unknown

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

  * Impact
  tar supplied in bionic has --add-file option broken.

  * Test case
  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

  * Regression potential
  The changes are around an option which isn't working so no much regression potential there, check that other options still work though

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

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