Package: tar
Version: 1.20-1+lenny1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

It looks like that some descriptions included in tar.1 page are not complete. 
According to what I invesigated is that the tarman script responsible for the 
extraction of the info from src/tar.c is not able to extract messages that are
split on several lines.

For example the following message from src.tar.c (l 427-432):

  {"occurrence", OCCURRENCE_OPTION, N_("NUMBER"), OPTION_ARG_OPTIONAL,
   N_("process only the NUMBERth occurrence of each file in the archive;"
      " this option is valid only in conjunction with one of the subcommands"
      " --delete, --diff, --extract or --list and when a list of files"
      " is given either on the command line or via the -T option;"
      " NUMBER defaults to 1"), GRID+1 },

is extracted as following in tar.1 (l 199-200)

.It Fl \-occurrence
process only the NUMBERth occurrence of each file in the archive;

Thanks,

Thomas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages tar depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.7-18lenny4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

tar recommends no packages.

Versions of packages tar suggests:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-1    high-quality block-sorting file co
pn  ncompress                     <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information



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