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From: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
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Subject: tar doesn't understand "--" flag
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Package: tar
Version: 1.11.11-1

Tar doesn't understand the "--" flag, which a past version handled.
I think it's meant to have the standard GNU usage of not interpreting
any arguments past the "--" as flags.