Bug#539355: perl-modules: Archive::Tar fails to read tar files after a first error

Wed Aug 26 23:42:49 UTC 2009

On 2009-08-26 23:11:28 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> The fact that error() is an object method but returns a module-wide
> (effectively global) value does seem to me like a design oversight and
> could at least be documented better. Downgrading the severity, I'll see
> about sending a patch upstream.

IMHO, this is more than a documentation error. This is bug that should
be fixed or the object method should be removed.

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