tar
GNU version of the tar archiving utility
Binary packages in stable
| Architecture | Version | Section | Installed size |
|---|---|---|---|
| amd64 | 1.35+dfsg-3.1 | utils | 3,085 kB |
| arm64 | 1.35+dfsg-3.1 | utils | 3,105 kB |
| armel | 1.35+dfsg-3.1 | utils | 3,097 kB |
| armhf | 1.35+dfsg-3.1 | utils | 2,969 kB |
| i386 | 1.35+dfsg-3.1 | utils | 3,137 kB |
| ppc64el | 1.35+dfsg-3.1 | utils | 3,360 kB |
| riscv64 | 1.35+dfsg-3.1 | utils | 3,017 kB |
| s390x | 1.35+dfsg-3.1 | utils | 3,132 kB |
Description
GNU version of the tar archiving utility
Dependencies amd64
- Pre-Depends
- libacl1 (>= 2.2.23), libc6 (>= 2.38), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~)
- Suggests
- bzip2, ncompress, xz-utils, tar-scripts, tar-doc
Source package
- Name
- tar
- Version
- 1.35+dfsg-3.1
- Maintainer
- Janos Lenart
- Homepage
- https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
- Repository
- https://salsa.debian.org/debian/tar
Bugs (95 open)
Each bug opens in the Debian bug tracking system, which holds its message log and current state.
- #1143836 important tar: CVE-2026-18477 CVE-2026-18508 on bugs.debian.org pending against src:tar by Salvatore Bonaccorso reported updated securityupstream
- #1137512 important tar: v1.35 --keep-newer-files incorrectly exits with unexpected on bugs.debian.org pending by Chris Laprise reported updated
- #1132999 important tar: CVE-2026-5704 on bugs.debian.org forwarded against src:tar by Salvatore Bonaccorso reported updated forwarded to lists.gnu.org securityupstream
- #1025331 important tar: needs an unambiguous listing format on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Matthew Vernon reported updated forwarded to lists.gnu.org upstream
- #972831 important tar: produces incorrect TAR+zstd archive when creating archive remotely on bugs.debian.org pending by Laurent Bonnaud reported updated
- #869087 important tar corrupts filenames when using --delete on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Emmanuel Bourg reported updated forwarded to bug-tar@gnu.org
- #648048 important tar: incremental restore fails when a directory is renamed as a name of a deleted directory on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Piviul reported updated forwarded to bug-tar@gnu.org upstream
- #415477 important tar: --exclude-from using process substitution fails on bugs.debian.org forwarded by ian reported updated forwarded to bug-tar@gnu.org
- #317275 important tar: --remove-files can remove the archive being created on bugs.debian.org forwarded by spyderz reported updated forwarded to spyderz-debian@spyderz.dnsalias.net, bug-tar@gnu.org
- #290435 important rmt filename support makes tar vulnerable to "phishing" attacks on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Joey Hess reported updated forwarded to bug-tar@gnu.org security
- #1123833 normal tar: behaves inconsistently when filtering for '', /, /whatever on bugs.debian.org pending by наб reported updated
- #1078763 normal reportbug: tar extract (of big archive) gradually spins cpu with disk idle on bugs.debian.org pending by Henryk Paluch reported updated
- #1054030 normal tar: -P is "Don't strip leading slashes from file names when creating archives." but also disables stripping on extraxion on bugs.debian.org pending by наб reported updated
- #1043480 normal tar bug - unreadable part of files are shrank by "x" bytes while ddrescue can save more bytes than tar shrank on bugs.debian.org pending by Elias Tsolis reported updated
- #1024069 normal tar: exclude options with trailing slash does not exclude directory on bugs.debian.org pending by Eloi Notario reported updated
- #1004430 normal tar: `numeric-owner` not honored for ACLs on bugs.debian.org pending by Fabian Grünbichler reported updated patch
- #973847 normal tar exits, if jusing --directory= on bugs.debian.org pending by eiqu0Adu reported updated
- #973719 normal tar --exclude parameter not excluding on bugs.debian.org pending by Michael P reported updated
- #949785 normal Tar - Unable extract with --files-from archieve members with space symbols in their names on bugs.debian.org pending by Сергей Фёдоров reported updated
- #927264 normal tar: do not set default rsh-command on bugs.debian.org pending by Christoph Anton Mitterer reported updated
- #927261 normal tar: file capabilities lost upon extraction on bugs.debian.org pending by Christoph Anton Mitterer reported updated
- #881226 normal tar gives "Illegal Instructions" on kernel 3.16.39-1+deb8u2 when upgrade jessie to strech on bugs.debian.org pending by Hans Schou reported updated
- #865318 normal tar: infinite loop with --extract --xattrs --skip-old-files if file has extended attributes on bugs.debian.org pending by Rask Ingemann Lambertsen reported updated
- #862193 normal tar: Cannot utime: Read-only file system on bugs.debian.org pending by Stefan Froehlich reported updated
- #861815 normal tar: Handle '..' in path the old (1.29b-1) way on bugs.debian.org pending by Volker Groll reported updated
- #850668 normal tar FTCBFS for any-kfreebsd: acl/xattr detection broken on bugs.debian.org pending against src:tar by Helmut Grohne reported updated
- #848348 normal tar: shows strange error message if there is no space left on device on bugs.debian.org pending by Askar Safin reported updated
- #847993 normal tar: man describes "--preserve" option, but tar doesn't support it on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Askar Safin reported updated forwarded to bug-tar@gnu.org
- #784362 normal tar: Radical change in --keep-old-files behavior since Wheezy on bugs.debian.org pending by Remi Rampin reported updated upstream
- #775495 normal tar: please use the same options to backup and restore xattrs on bugs.debian.org pending by Ingo Wichmann \(Linuxhotel\) reported updated upstream
- #775489 normal tar: Since version 1.27 tar honours ACLs and filesystem xattrs ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=254615 ) on bugs.debian.org pending by Ingo Wichmann \(Linuxhotel\) reported updated
- #775247 normal tar: transform applied to symlink targets incorrectly when changing directory level on bugs.debian.org pending by Frank Heckenbach reported updated
- #749307 normal tar: --warning=none does not (always?) quiesce warnings on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Guillem Jover reported updated forwarded to bug-tar@gnu.org
- #607150 normal tar fails to copy symlinks from hfsplus on bugs.debian.org pending by jamesb reported updated
- #556114 normal tar: --listed-incremental ignores changed files when using filesystem snapshots on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Rogier reported updated forwarded to bug-tar@gnu.org
- #508199 normal tar x --backup broken on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Eric Lammerts reported updated forwarded to bug-tar@gnu.org
- #475895 normal tar: Error "this volume is out of sequence" on restore from LS120 diskettes on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Mark Hobley reported updated forwarded to bug-tar@gnu.org
- #475879 normal tar --compare gives error warnings when file does not exist on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Paul Gevers reported updated forwarded to bug-tar@gnu.org
- #435142 normal tar: disk full - causes tar to continue and issue false error on bugs.debian.org pending by Jari Aalto reported updated
- #411485 normal tar: Segment violation when file list specfified with -T contains empty lines. on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Raúl Sánchez Siles reported updated forwarded to bug-tar@gnu.org
- #377785 normal tar: some symlinks are not extracted properly on bugs.debian.org pending by Thibaut Paumard reported updated
- #332416 normal tar: dumps core with --delete -j on bugs.debian.org pending by Francesco Potorti` reported updated
- #313237 normal tar misses datestamp on symlinks on bugs.debian.org forwarded by D Goel reported updated forwarded to bug-tar@gnu.org
- #310511 normal 'tar --keep-newer-files' deletes old/extracts new files on bugs.debian.org pending by Helmut Waitzmann reported updated
- #310323 normal tar: non error messages send to stderr since 1.15 on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #261852 normal tar should quit restore when out of space on bugs.debian.org pending by John reported updated
- #230064 normal tar --verify bug with relative paths on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Juha-Matti Åberg reported updated forwarded to bug-tar@gnu.org upstream
- #199945 normal base: tar hangs forever when verifying and using --sparse flag on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Paul Buder reported updated forwarded to bug-tar@gnu.org
- #89739 normal tar adds up-to-date files when specified with an absolute path name on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Radim Hrusa reported updated forwarded to bug-tar@gnu.org upstream
- #57167 normal tar --sparse bug on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Marc SCHAEFER reported updated forwarded to bug-tar@gnu.org
- #35496 normal dds2tar-patched tar doesn't print record numbers anymore on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Christian Schwarz reported updated forwarded to Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>, weule@cs.uni-duesseldorf.de
- #1093265 minor tarcat.1: Some remarks and a patch with editorial changes for this man page on bugs.debian.org pending by Bjarni Ingi Gislason reported updated patch
- #1050544 minor tar: missing Git tags upstream/1.33+dfsg, upstream/1.34+dfsg on bugs.debian.org pending against src:tar by Gioele Barabucci reported updated
- #1033748 minor source: build should not need extra option for user root on bugs.debian.org pending by henrynmail-debian@yahoo.com reported updated ftbfs
- #1012571 minor --no-auto-compress does not work when decompressing on bugs.debian.org pending by Marc Haber reported updated
- #808702 minor please document DATE-OR-FILE format on bugs.debian.org pending by Eduard Bloch reported updated
- #184090 minor Invalid IOCTL command send to tape-driver on bugs.debian.org pending by Frans Pop reported updated upstream
- #1068576 wishlist tar: Please provide autopkgtest on bugs.debian.org pending against src:tar by Andreas Tille reported updated
- #1028970 wishlist complains to stderr about "unknown extended header keyword" on bugs.debian.org pending by Marco d'Itri reported updated wontfix
- #991275 wishlist tar doesn't restore all directory timestamps from the extracted archive on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Vincent Lefevre reported updated forwarded to lists.gnu.org upstreamwontfix
- #860088 wishlist Please improve --numeric-owner documentation on bugs.debian.org pending by Jean-Michel Vourgère reported updated
- #780325 wishlist mdoc warning: Empty input line #162 on bugs.debian.org pending by 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson reported updated
- #780324 wishlist mention info page on bugs.debian.org pending by 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson reported updated
- #773912 wishlist tar: please allow automatically selecting the decompression algorithm for standard input as it already works when giving a filename on bugs.debian.org pending by Johannes Schauer reported updated
- #766013 wishlist mention -f in SYNOPSIS on bugs.debian.org pending by 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson reported updated
- #727159 wishlist tar: mailcap of application/x-ustar on bugs.debian.org pending by Kevin Ryde reported updated
- #653045 wishlist Please split rmt into a separate package on bugs.debian.org pending by Josh Triplett reported updated wontfix
- #653044 wishlist rsh command should default to ssh on bugs.debian.org pending by Josh Triplett reported updated
- #649915 wishlist Please use posix_fallocate() on bugs.debian.org pending by Goswin von Brederlow reported updated
- #590237 wishlist [tar] Add option to use the parallel versions of gzip/bzip2 on bugs.debian.org pending by Georg Gast reported updated
- #546148 wishlist please add an option to have tar chroot itself on bugs.debian.org pending by Marc Haber reported updated
- #546036 wishlist tar: please add an option for honoring a different /etc/passwd and /etc/group on bugs.debian.org pending by Marc Haber reported updated
- #527148 wishlist able to dereference the command line arguments for tar on bugs.debian.org pending by Tong Sun reported updated
- #521344 wishlist no INCLUDE option in tar on bugs.debian.org pending by Mark Poks reported updated
- #512235 wishlist tar: info/comment on archive on bugs.debian.org pending by psycheye reported updated
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