Package: binutils
Version: 2.18.1~cvs20080103-1
Severity: minor

ar -h lists

ar [emulation options] [-]{dmpqrstx}[abcfilNoPsSuvV] [member-name] [count] 
archive-file file

while the manpage does 

ar [-X32_64] [-]p[mod [relpos] [count]] archive [member...]

and indeed when extracting [member-name] must be behind archive, e.g.

ar x some.deb control.tar.gz

and [relpos] is used to denote the member after which something is added
in the archive like in

ar qa debian-binary some.deb x


So I suggest to adjust the help to online help ar -h to:

ar [emulation options] [-]{dmpqrstx}[abcfilNoPsSuvV] [relpos] [count] archive 
[member...]

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-sonne (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages binutils depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-8      GNU C Library: Shared libraries

binutils recommends no packages.

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