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diff --git a/archivers/rubygem-minitar/pkg-descr b/archivers/rubygem-minitar/pkg-descr index 7e815786e840..78e9ce004b45 100644 --- a/archivers/rubygem-minitar/pkg-descr +++ b/archivers/rubygem-minitar/pkg-descr @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ -Ruby library and command-line utility for tar archives. +The minitar (previously called Archive::Tar::Minitar) library is a pure-Ruby +library that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar(1) archive files. + +This is release 0.6+, providing a number of bug fixes including a directory +traversal vulnerability, CVE-2016-10173. This release starts the migration and +modernization of the code: +- the minitar command-line program has been separated into the minitar-cli gem; + and +- the archive-tar-minitar gem now points to the minitar and minitar-cli gems and + discourages its installation. WWW: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar |