Subject: bug#19481: package.el: support .tar archives featuring a pax_global_header entry

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 22:53:43 +0200

Ivan Shmakov <[email-masked]> writes:

>  >> * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (package-untar-buffer): Use
>  >> tar-header-extractable-p.
>  >> (package-tar-file-info): Consider the second file name in the
>  >> archive if the first one has no directory component.
>
>  > Thanks.
>
>  > Can we have a test suite for this file,
>
> 	Which of the two?  (Or three, to count the .tar file produced by
> 	$ git archive.)
>
>  > and in particular for these changes?
>
> 	I hope to come with a suitable addition for
> 	test/automated/package-test.el shortly.  Or do you suggest
> 	adding a test suite for tar-mode as well?
>
> 	FTR, the two changes I suggest are not /inter/dependent, so I
> 	intend to push them as two separate commits.  (And I wonder if
> 	eit makes sense to now file a separate Severity: wishlist bug
> 	report for tar-header-extractable-p, so to provide a somewhat
> 	extended background for the feature.)

It doesn't look like these changes were applied -- are they still of
interest, or is the pax_global_header entry not supported any more?

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