Issue #13158: Fix decoding and encoding of base-256 number fields in tarfile.
The nti() function that converts a number field from a tar header to a number
failed to decode GNU tar specific base-256 fields. I also added support for
decoding and encoding negative base-256 number fields.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ecff9b7..77bc91f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@
Library
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+- Issue #13158: Fix decoding and encoding of GNU tar specific base-256 number
+ fields in tarfile.
+
- Issue #13025: mimetypes is now reading MIME types using the UTF-8 encoding,
instead of the locale encoding.