diff --git a/archiver/tar/tar-1.26-glibc-2.16-no-gets.patch.toolchain b/archiver/tar/tar-1.26-glibc-2.16-no-gets.patch.toolchain
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--- a/archiver/tar/tar-1.26-glibc-2.16-no-gets.patch.toolchain
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@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-#
-# Filename: package/.../tar/tar-1.26-glibc-2.16-no-gets.patch.toolchain
-# Copyright (C) 2012 The OpenSDE Project
-#
-# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
-#
-# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
-# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
-# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
-# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
-# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
-# version.
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
-Since the 2.16 release of the glibc, 'gets' is not defined in the gnulib anymore
-
-This is a hack until upstream pulls in a new gnulib version
-
-Within gnulib this issue was already adsressed in the following commit:
-
-http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=66712c23388e93e5c518ebc8515140fa0c80734
-
---- tar-1.26/gnu/stdio.in.h.orig	2012-08-05 05:24:10.869839261 +0200
-+++ tar-1.26/gnu/stdio.in.h	2012-08-05 05:24:27.415681108 +0200
-@@ -164,7 +164,6 @@
-    so any use of gets warrants an unconditional warning.  Assume it is
-    always declared, since it is required by C89.  */
- #undef gets
--_GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead");
- 
- #if @GNULIB_FOPEN@
- # if @REPLACE_FOPEN@