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libarchive package

  1. Bug #1510972
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1510972

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Andreas Henriksson (andreas-fatal) wrote :

See http://sources.debian.net/src/libarchive/3.1.2-11/tar/bsdtar.c/#L74 for explanation/reason and where to hack if you want to change the behaviour. (See apple ifdef for reference.)

Feel free to convince upstream about changing the behaviour if you still think it should be done after investigating the above.

(// the Debian maintainer of libarchive.)