packaging

[Jeremy Huddleston]

I'm trying to track down a bug in tar.  Could someone provide me with  
any information about the version of tar used to 'make dist'  
libXmu-1.0.4.tar.bz2?  It's not specific to libXmu... I'm seeing this  
issue with many recent tarballs from x.org:

$ bunzip2 -dc libXmu-1.0.4.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -
tar: Read 1536 bytes from -

'tar -xjf libXmu-1.0.4.tar.bz2' works fine.  Repackaging it seems to  
work as well.  Using a newer version of tar to extract it works,  
too... unfortunately due to licensing issues, updating to a GPL3  
version of gnutar to fix the problem is not possible... so I just want  
to figure out how the tarball was made in an attempt to figure out a  
fix.

Thanks,
Jeremy

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