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has caused the Debian Bug report #466718,
regarding tar: manpage doesn't document --mtime option
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466718: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466718
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: tar
Version: 1.19-1
Severity: minor
tar's --mtime option is only documented via the --help and info.
There's no mention of how to use it in the manpage. This is especially
relevant because the --mtime option expects a "DATE-OR-FILE" argument.
Since that argument format isn't documented the user has no way to know
that using a file as an argument requires a leading '/' or '.' without
installing tar-doc from non-free or searching the web for the manual.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (499, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages tar depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
tar recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
This problem no longer exists in the tar 1.22 packages since we're now using
a script to generate the man page source automatically from the help text in
the program source.
Bdale
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