Inconsistency in the man page regarding created archive file

Bug #1796900 reported by Stefan Hamcke
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
tar (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

This is just a minor mistake, but still worth correcting, I think.

In the man page for tar_1.29b-2_amd64 and also tar_1.30+dfsg-2_amd64, the first command demonstrating the option styles is

    tar cfv a.tar /etc

which creates the archive a.tar. In the text, however, it is said to create the file etc.tar.

Stefan Hamcke (hamcke)
summary: - mistake in the man page
+ Inconsistency in the man page regarding created archive file
tags: added: bitesize manpage
Revision history for this message
Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

This has been fixed upstream and is part of the 1.32 version of tar, which is not yet in Ubuntu or Debian.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=b0930da045d4dc9750097876f0a3f672dc99ad11

Changed in tar (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
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