Yes, I think so.

> This bug report was last modified 208 days ago.

Just wondering why accepting the patch was stuck.

On 1/20/20 7:47 PM, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 12:32, Serghei <egrep@protonmail.ch> wrote:
>
>> As I realized the main problem is the tar format.  Using bsdtar with
>> `--format=ustar' flag (which is POSIX-standard) does the trick.
>> However bsdtar uses “pax interchange” format by default and this is
>> not implemented properly in the `tar-mode'.
>>
>> On 1/19/20 3:18 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> I have managed to fix the issue just by replacing bsdtar by GNU tar.
>>> I guess that deserves a bug report (the bug is not in
>>> the package manager but in tar-mode.el which seems not to support some
>>> of the formats used by bsdtar).
> Is the patch in Bug#19481 relevant?
>
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/19481#19