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| author | Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org> | 2018-11-22 02:39:28 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2018-11-28 14:31:28 (GMT) |
| commit | 38e75bb3c6c4c41ff80697876aa7498c80a8623a (patch) | |
| tree | f32d73b8380618d9937d8f61dc0b934cd2b7f21d /Help/release/dev | |
| parent | 0fc6faf2ddfb146704146d13b71bfd048128917f (diff) | |
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CPack/Deb: Remove paxr as a supported tar format for a .deb
The only format supported from the ones available within cpack is
gnutar, which supports large numbers encoded in base-256, and long
filenames and linknames. PAX is not and has never been a supported
format by dpkg.
Fixes: #18620
Diffstat (limited to 'Help/release/dev')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/release/dev/cpack-deb-tar-format.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/cpack-deb-tar-format.rst b/Help/release/dev/cpack-deb-tar-format.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9296ec6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/release/dev/cpack-deb-tar-format.rst @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +cpack-deb-tar-format +-------------------- + +* The :module:`CPack` module no longer defaults to the ``paxr`` value in the + :variable:`CPACK_DEBIAN_ARCHIVE_TYPE` variable, because ``dpkg`` has + never supported the PAX tar format. The ``paxr`` value will be mapped + to ``gnutar`` and a deprecation message emitted. |