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FS#12188 - tar man page is outdated and missing various options

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Engin Alper (alperosm) - Thursday, 20 November 2008, 06:21 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 22 December 2008, 13:17 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

The man page that comes with package "tar" is very outdated (1993). The man page comes from the Debian and not from the upstream. Debian has a more recent version (2007), which documents many additional and useful features. This recent man page can be obtained from the following link:

http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.20-1.diff.gz

The man page is between lines 928-1314 of the above document (which is Debian's patches to the upstream).

Note: I know this does not really qualify as a bug however I first tried flagging tar out of date and explained the situation but the package maintainer (whose judgment I trust) told me to report it as a bug instead.

Additional info:
* package version(s)

1.20-2

* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:

man tar
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Monday, 22 December 2008, 13:17 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  added info files and updated the man page in 1.20-3

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