[Bug-tar] Who maintains the tar manual pages distributed with Ubuntu?

2013-06-10 Thread Eric S. Raymond
It appears they're not in the tar distrubution. Also, how do I run the test suite? -- a href=http://www.catb.org/~esr/;Eric S. Raymond/a Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as

Re: [Bug-tar] Who maintains the tar manual pages distributed with Ubuntu?

2013-06-10 Thread Andreas Dilger
Unfortunately, the tar maintainers have taken the stance that because this is a GNU project it should use GNU Info instead of a man page, so they refuse to include the existing man page that has been offered to them. As it stands, the distros maintain the tar man page separate from the package.

Re: [Bug-tar] Who maintains the tar manual pages distributed with Ubuntu?

2013-06-10 Thread Paul Eggert
On 06/09/13 19:20, Eric S. Raymond wrote: Also, how do I run the test suite? make check should do it.