2006-11-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+ * NEWS: Remove support for mangled names.
+ * doc/tar.texi (verbose tutorial): Likewise.
+ * src/Makefile.am (tar_SOURCES): Remove mangle.c.
+ * src/common.h (extract_mangle): Remove decl.
+ * src/extract.c (extract_mangle_wrapper): Remove.
+ (prepare_to_extract): Remove support for mangled names.
+ * src/list.c (read_and, print_header): Likewise.
+ * src/mangle.c: Remove.
+ * src/tar.h (GNUTYPE_NAMES): Remove.
+
Port to latest gnulib. There were a lot of changes, so the
simplest way to get this up and running was to switch to coreutils
bootstrap procedure. I noticed one feature missing after this