tar's info documentation is missing

[Chris Moore]

Until recently, tar's texinfo documentation was part of the 'tar' package in debian, but now it has moved to a new package, 'tar-doc'.

Edgy should make package 'tar-doc' available as well as 'tar' now, since 'tar' no longer contains the full documentation, just the small man page.

[Dave Long (longwave)]

This change was made upstream in Debian because tar's documentation is not freely modifiable. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357259

[Kai Kasurinen (kai-kasurinen)]

Thanks for the bug report.

I'm closing this bug because it has been fixed in Edgy.

tar-doc (1.15.91-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Initial packaging of GFDL'ed tar info documentation for Debian non-free

 -- Scott James Remnant <email address hidden> Sun, 03 Sep 2006 19:20:26 +0100