Comment # 7 on bug 918487 from Kristyna Streitova

(In reply to V��t��zslav ������ek from comment #3)
> So let's revert the patch until we have a working solution.

It seems that upstream doesn't consider this a regression but intended change
in behaviour instead [1]:

<cite>
Yes, --recursive is position-sensitive option and as such it must be
used before arguments it is supposed to affect.  Please see 3.4.4
"Position-Sensitive Options"[1], for details.
</cite>

In this case, we should re-introduce the reverted patch and fix all packages
that use the wrong option position.


[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2016-05/msg00010.html