Subject: Re: bug#38777: 26.3; tar-mode doesn't list a file / crashes on package-tar-file-info
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 18:20:06 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Victor Collod <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 21:52:35 +0100
> 
> On Dez 28 2019, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Looks like invalid tar file?  It uses the magic string of "ustar "
> > (two trailing blanks), whereas we only recognize at most one.
> 
> That's the oldgnu format.

Thanks.

I found the problem in tar-mode.el when reading oldgnu format, and
fixed it on the emacs-27 branch.  I'm therefore closing the bug.