* Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.
+* --append should bail out if the two archives are of different types.
+
* Add support for GNU private keywords in POSIX 1003.1-2001 headers,
so that the GNU extensions (--incremental, --label and
--multi-volume) may be used with POSIX archives.
UNIX98 tar warns if all links cannot be resolved.
(GNU tar --check-links option)
- Perhaps we could announce a phase-in period where "l" changes in semantics.
- In the meanwhile we could make the "l" semantics to be determined by the
- value of POSIXLY_CORRECT variable.
+ Currently tar prints a warning when this option is used. Somewhere
+ in the future its semantics will be changed to that of --check-links.
+ In the meanwhile we should announce a phase-in period where "l"
+ changes in semantics.
* Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation.
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* Copyright notice
- Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GNU tar.