tar does not restore symlink {cma}time

[Nikolaus Rath]

Binary package hint: tar

$ cat error.sh
#!/bin/bash
md foo
ln -s 'somewhere' foo/symlink
echo somedata > foo/file
sleep 3
tar cf foo.tar foo
mv foo bar
tar xf foo.tar
rsync -aHAXicn foo/ bar/
stat foo/symlink bar/symlink
rm -r foo bar foo.tar

$ . error.sh
.L..t...... symlink -> somewhere
  File: `foo/symlink' -> `somewhere'
  Size: 84 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 symbolic link
Device: 16h/22d Inode: 138397 Links: 1
Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 1000/nikratio) Gid: ( 1000/nikratio)
Access: 2010-04-22 13:56:25.818125034 -0400
Modify: 2010-04-22 13:56:25.818125034 -0400
Change: 2010-04-22 13:56:25.818125034 -0400
  File: `bar/symlink' -> `somewhere'
  Size: 84 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 symbolic link
Device: 16h/22d Inode: 138391 Links: 1
Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 1000/nikratio) Gid: ( 1000/nikratio)
Access: 2010-04-22 13:56:22.798124971 -0400
Modify: 2010-04-22 13:56:22.798124971 -0400
Change: 2010-04-22 13:56:22.798124971 -0400

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 22 13:53:12 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: tar 1.22-1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: tar
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686