Package: bsdtar
Version: 1.2.53-2
Severity: minor
There are 2 chunks of obsolete information in the bsdtar man page:
1) It states with the -l option:
"Users who desire behavior compatible with GNU tar should use the
--one-file-system option instead."
The current GNU tar manpage however states with the same option:
"-l, --check-links print a message if not all links are dumped"
Obviously the meaning of the -l option in GNU tar has changed to
match the POSIX behaviour. This fact is also stated in an entry in
the GNU tar changelog dated 2006-05-24.
2) The BUGS section also refers to the -l option:
"POSIX and GNU violently disagree about the meaning of the -l option.
Because of the potential for disaster if someone expects one behavior and
gets the other, the -l option is deliberately broken in this implementa-
tion."
The documentation should be updated to match the current facts and
probably the -l option could be changed to always yield the POSIX
behaviour now that the other tar's agree upon its meaning.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-486
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages bsdtar depends on:
ii libarchive1 1.2.53-2 Single library to read/write tar,
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime
bsdtar recommends no packages.
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