[issue19974] tarfile doesn't overwrite symlink by directory

[Martin Panter]

Martin Panter <vadmium+py at gmail.com> added the comment:

I’m not sure if this should be considered a bug fix, but if it goes into 2.7 it would overlap with Issue 10761 and Issue 12088. In 2.7 existing directory entries (including broken symlinks, but not including subdirectories) may be replaced by symbolic and hard links.

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