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.

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