bpo-30661: Improve doc for tarfile pax change and effect on shutil #12635
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As a followup to bpo-36268 and PR #12355 , to fully resolve bpo-30661 this PR makes the following documentation changes:
tar
shutil.make_archive
format, and adds aversionchanged
note to this effect toshutil.make_archive
.shutil
section of the What's New document.versionchanged
section there.I didn't add a
NEWS
item for this change, but I can do so if desired (@ncoghlan ?).https://bugs.python.org/issue30661