Package: tar
Version: 1.27.1-2+b1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
(The bug about empty lines is also mentioned in bugs 711725, 720877,
and 766016)
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Warnings from "man --warnings=w --no-justification tar" with
MANOPT=--no-hyphenation --warnings=w --locale=POSIX
MAN_KEEP_STDERR=yes
<standard input>:69: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:69: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:69: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:69: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:69: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:93: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:93: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:93: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:93: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:93: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:99: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:99: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:99: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:99: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:99: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:109: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:109: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:109: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:109: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:109: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:111: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:111: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:111: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:111: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:111: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:113: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:113: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:113: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:113: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:113: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:129: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:129: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:129: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:129: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:129: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:165: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:165: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:165: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:165: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:165: warning: escape character ignored before `='
mdoc warning: Empty input line #168
mdoc warning: Empty input line #170
<standard input>:183: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:183: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:183: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:183: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:183: warning: escape character ignored before `='
mdoc warning: Empty input line #186
mdoc warning: Empty input line #188
mdoc warning: Empty input line #190
<standard input>:195: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:195: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:195: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:195: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:195: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:197: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:197: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:197: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:197: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:197: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:203: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:203: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:203: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:203: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:203: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:225: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:225: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:225: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:225: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:225: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:231: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:231: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:231: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:231: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:231: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:237: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:237: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:237: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:237: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:237: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:239: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:239: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:239: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:239: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:239: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:241: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:241: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:241: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:241: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:241: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:245: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:245: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:245: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:245: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:245: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:257: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:257: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:257: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:257: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:257: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:259: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:259: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:259: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:259: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:259: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:287: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:287: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:287: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:287: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:287: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:289: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:289: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:289: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:289: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:289: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:291: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:291: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:291: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:291: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:291: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:295: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:295: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:295: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:295: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:295: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:313: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:313: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:313: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:313: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:313: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:319: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:319: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:319: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:319: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:319: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:333: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:333: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:333: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:333: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:333: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:335: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:335: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:335: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:335: warning: escape character ignored before `='
<standard input>:335: warning: escape character ignored before `='
mdoc warning: Empty input line #340
mdoc warning: Empty input line #342
There are some empty lines in the output, caused by missing
explanation of options for compression. There is a separate function
in the code (tar.c) to provide for that.
Another possibility is to use "help2man" to create a man-page. In
some places a "=" is missing in the output of "tarman".
Patch:
--- tarman 2014-03-22 21:55:23.000000000 +0000
+++ tarman.new 2015-03-04 17:38:09.000000000 +0000
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ sub format_options
if ($#functions > 0) {
$r .= " ";
} else {
- $r .= " Ns \\= Ns ";
+ $r .= " Ns = Ns ";
}
$r .= "Ar ".$$q{'operand'};
}
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'),
(500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500,
'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.7-ckt2-1
Locale: LANG=is_IS, LC_CTYPE=is_IS (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages tar depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.52-2
ii libc6 2.19-15
ii libselinux1 2.3-2
tar recommends no packages.
Versions of packages tar suggests:
ii bzip2 1.0.6-7+b2
pn ncompress <none>
pn tar-scripts <none>
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
-- no debconf information
--
Bjarni I. Gislason
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