Hello,
Both in the NEWS file and in the tar home page[1], the entries
corresponding to the addition of the --lzip option are missing. I attach
two (trivial) patches.
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html
Thanks,
Antonio.
--- NEWS~ 2017-01-29 20:17:07.000000000 +0100
+++ NEWS 2017-01-29 20:22:20.000000000 +0100
@@ -421,6 +421,8 @@
version 1.23 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-03-10
+* Support for lzip compression (--lzip option)
+
* Record size autodetection
When listing or extracting archives, the actual record size is
--- tar.html~ 2017-01-29 20:09:38.000000000 +0100
+++ tar.html 2017-01-29 20:22:20.000000000 +0100
@@ -617,6 +617,7 @@
the <a
href="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/plain/NEWS?e8e0b6cb7ac0a7a8d1fb4cb954a8bd8158dded02";>NEWS
file</a>, for a detailed information.</p>
<ul>
+ <li>Support for lzip compression (--lzip option)</li>
<li>Improved record size autodetection</li>
<li>Use of lseek on seekable archives</li>
<li>New command line option <code>--warning</code></li>
