Package: pax Version: 1:20140703-1 Severity: normal The POSIX standard requires support for the pax format as a condition for compliance. The manual page says
The pax utility is compliant with the IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (“POSIX”)
specification.
But that isn't the case:
vauxhall ok % pax -w -x pax testcase
pax: Unknown -x format: pax
pax: Known -x formats are: ar bcpio cpio dist sv4cpio sv4crc tar ustar v4norm
v4root
usage: pax [-0cdJjnOvz] [-E limit] [-f archive] [-G group] [-s replstr]
[-T range] [-U user] [pattern ...]
pax -r [-0cDdiJjknOuvYZz] [-E limit] [-f archive] [-G group] [-M flag]
[-o options] [-p string] [-s replstr] [-T range] [-U user]
[pattern ...]
pax -w [-0adHiJjLOPtuvXz] [-B bytes] [-b blocksize] [-f archive]
[-G group] [-M flag] [-o options] [-s replstr] [-T range]
[-U user] [-x format] [file ...]
pax -rw [-0DdHikLlnOPtuvXYZ] [-G group] [-p string] [-s replstr]
[-T range] [-U user] [file ...] directory
The manual page shouldn't claim POSIX conformance when pax doesn't, in
fact, conform. Ideally this would be fixed by implementing the pax
format, but adjusting the manual page would be acceptable, too.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16-rc6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages pax depends on:
ii libc6 2.19-7
pax recommends no packages.
pax suggests no packages.
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