A patch to the script that generates the man page adding such a URL would be 
accepted.  The existence of the non-free tar doc package might also deserve 
passing mention...

[email protected] wrote:

>X-debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
>Package: tar
>Version: 1.26+dfsg-6
>File: /usr/share/man/man1/tar.1.gz
>
>BUGS
>     The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents
>     instead.  Unfortunately, the info document describing tar is licensed
>     under the GFDL with invariant cover texts, which makes it impossible to
>     include any text from that document in this man page.  Most of the text
>     in this document was automatically extracted from the usage text in the
>     source.  It may not completely describe all features of the program.
>
>                                 May 31, 2013
>
>So please say what URL to click on to see it, like man cpio now says!

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