Re: exclude17.at and exclude18.at tests are missing in the tar-1.35 tarball

[Paul Eggert]

On 2023-07-21 01:54, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> I think the problems happen because we do do `autoreconf -v` for the
> GNU tar package in Fedora (we have several patches applied on top of the
> upstream tarball).  Some distributions (not Fedora) do this by default
> per their policies, so I would eventually view this as a (low-priority?)
> tarball issue.

If you patch the tarball's files, then it's your responsibility to make 
sure the resulting files work. To do that, I suggest adding to your 
patchlist a patch that adds the missing files. This should work around 
the problem. You can omit this patch once tar 1.36 comes out.