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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> 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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