Woo-hoo! I just did my half-yearly sweep through all the issues I've got open against other peoples' code, and ... one of them got fixed! The ticket wasn't closed, and it's not mentioned in the #ChangeLog so I think it was #FixedByMistake. It was to do with the #PaxHeader problem in release #tarballs on #Solaris, so I assume it was fixed by the author using a different version of tar for the next release, or tweaking his build/release process. But regardless of what happened I am happy.