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r85211 | lars.gustaebel | 2010-10-04 17:18:47 +0200 (Mon, 04 Oct 2010) | 14 lines
Issue #9065: no longer use "root" as the default for the
uname and gname field.
If tarfile creates a new archive and adds a file with a
uid/gid that doesn't have a corresponding name on the
system (e.g. because the user/group account was deleted) it
uses the empty string in the uname/gname field now instead
of "root". Using "root" as the default was a bad idea
because on extraction the uname/gname fields are supposed
to override the uid/gid fields. So, all archive members
with nameless uids/gids belonged to the root user after
extraction.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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Library
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+- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
+ gname field.
+
- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.