attention tar maintainer

attention tar maintainer

[George Pearson]

Would it be possible to update the version of tar currently in cygwin?
The current version is 1.26, which, in the GNU project anyway, was 
released in March 2011.  I need a version with a bug fix done in Nov 
2011, so 1.27 or the latest (1.27-1) should do.

The bug fix fixes (among other things) the use of the -diff option with 
an archive created with -g (listed-incremental).  A related post from 
Sergey Poznyakoff, one of the GNU tar maintainers, will found here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-tar%40gnu.org/msg03446.html

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Re: attention tar maintainer

[Eric Blake]

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On 04/09/2014 12:46 PM, George Pearson wrote:
> Would it be possible to update the version of tar currently in cygwin?
> The current version is 1.26, which, in the GNU project anyway, was 
> released in March 2011.  I need a version with a bug fix done in Nov 
> 2011, so 1.27 or the latest (1.27-1) should do.

Apologies for the delays, but this is now done.  Please reply here if
any other problems turn up with the new build.

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