Debian Developers - Bug#375300: new tar behavior and --wildcards

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Bug#375300: new tar behavior and --wildcards

Guido Guenther

2006-06-30, 7:26 am

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:36:20AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:02:15AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
>
> In addition, I would suggest we reinstate the previous behaviour, but
> display a warning when wildcards are used but --wildcards is not set.
> The warning would tell people about the migration and explains they must
> fix their scripts to use --wildcards before upgrading to etch+1.
I can only second that - we really should support our users at least
that much (see point 4 in the social contract). Breaking users' scripts
in these ways needs more than a simple note in NEWS.Debian (you'll get
dozens of them when upgrading from sarge to etch).
Cheers,
-- Guido