Hi Karl, > We just received a report on webmasters that some man page for tar > refers to the wrong url http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/man.
The errors like that are reported every now and then. There are lots of `man' pages for GNU tar written by package maintainers or distributors. > It seems that the tar distribution doesn't include a man page. There is no man page. The only and authoritative source of documentation is tar.texi and documents profuced from it. > If that's right, it seems it would still be useful (although I know it's > not strictly necessary for GNU), to avoid errors like this. You can > generate with help2man I believe this as an extra maintenance burden. The man page generated by help2man is useless, it says the same thing everybody will get by simply running `tar --help'. > to avoid having an independent source to keep updated. If it is their choice to provide it, then let them provide it. Some of man pages I saw (those distributed with Slackware, for example) contain much more info than help2man would produce, and we'd do their users a very doubtful favor if we replace a third party man page saying something with our page saying nothing useful at all. Regards, Sergey
