-I change to -j is not good

[Bdale Garbee]

I was startled by the tar argument change from -I to -j for bzip2 support in
1.13.18, and others are too.  What motivated the change?  Can we adopt the
suggestion below?

Bdale
Debian GNU/Linux tar package maintainer

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From: Ben Collins <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Bug#80331: option changed from -I to -j
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On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 02:20:31PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> As indicated in the upstream ChangeLog:
> 
>         (long_options, usage, decode_options): -j is now short for
>         --bzip2, and -I is now an alias for -T.
> 
> I'm not sure why the option letter was changed, but it was clearly 
> intentional.
> I'll update the man page for the next upload.

Uh, can you remove the -I alias to -T and make it an alias to -j? Just so
we have some working tar?

I can't count the number of things in the system that depends on -I
working as expected. Since in this case, it seems -I is not needed (-T is
there), I think switching it so -I is an alias is the only answer.

Ben

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