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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ed544df..1bf3acd 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -88,6 +88,9 @@
Library
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+- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
+ gname field.
+
- Issue #8980: Fixed a failure in distutils.command check that was shadowed
by an environment that does not have docutils. Patch by Arfrever.