Package: tar
Version: 1.16-2
Severity: minor

The synopsis has:

       tar  [  -  ]  A  --catenate  --concatenate  | c --create | d
        --diff --compare | --delete | r --append | t --list | u --update
        | x --extract --get [ options ] pathname [ pathname ... ]

pathnames are not mandatory (they are mandatory arguments to options
such as -f, not mandatory parameters to tar itself), for instance tar
can be run using "tar -t" to list all the files in the current archive
on the default tape device.

The second [ pathname ... ] covers the general case, so the first
pathname should be removed:

       tar  [  -  ]  A  --catenate  --concatenate  | c --create | d
        --diff --compare | --delete | r --append | t --list | u --update
        | x --extract --get [ options ] [ pathname ... ]

Also note that pathname arguments don't just specify the files to add to
the archive when creating the archive, they also specify which files to
extract when using the -x option.

Current text:
    The final arguments to tar are the names of the files or directories
    which should be archived.

Proposed text:
    The final arguments to tar are the names of the files or directories
    which should be archived or extracted.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-eagle
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages tar depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

tar recommends no packages.

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