Bug#807270: mk-origtargz: create reproducible tarballs and --mtime option

[Diederik de Haas]

On Sun Mar 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM CET, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/Formats.html
> ...
> I also see 'posix' as archive format:
> "The format defined by POSIX.1-2001 and later."
> "This archive format will be the default format for future versions of
> GNU tar."
> ...
> btw: Is this what you mean by 'pax'?
> The serverfault page describes it as POSIX.1-2001, but the Formats page
> doesn't have the word 'pax'.

Answering this myself after checking ``tar --help``:

Archive format selection:
pax                      POSIX 1003.1-2001 (pax) format
posix                    same as pax

Cheers,
  Diederik
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