--add-file broken in bionic

[Martin Vogt]

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

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report and pointing out the commit that fixes it, that seems fixed in the current version so closing the corresponding bug line and uploading a SRU for bionic

[Brian Murray (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.

[Martin Vogt (xdeccardx)]

Hello Brian and Sebastien,

many thanks for your help! Testing of proposed package is done successfully on our side, --add-file switch is working again as expected.

pkg version: tar:amd64 (1.29b-2ubuntu0.1)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for tar has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tar - 1.29b-2ubuntu0.1

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tar (1.29b-2ubuntu0.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/git_add_file.patch:
    - backport "Fix the --add-file option." upstream commit,
      thanks Martin Vogt (lp: #1809827)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 21 Jan 2019 17:38:11 +0100