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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2020-11-25 10:01:01 (GMT)
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bpo-12800: tarfile: Restore fix from 011525ee9 (GH-21409)
Restore fix from 011525ee92eb1c13ad1a62d28725a840e28f8160. (cherry picked from commit 4fedd7123eaf147edd55eabbbd72e0bcc8368e47) Co-authored-by: Julien Palard <julien@palard.fr>
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+Extracting a symlink from a tarball should succeed and overwrite the symlink
+if it already exists. The fix is to remove the existing file or symlink
+before extraction. Based on patch by Chris AtLee, Jeffrey Kintscher, and
+Senthil Kumaran.